Word: projected
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...principles. For years, Kuznetsov chose the middle course, promising to report any "anti-Soviet activities" that he witnessed but refusing to spy on other writers. Once, after Kuznetsov had listened to a disillusioned scientist complain about being forced to work out mass-kill formulas on a missile project, the writer found himself summoned to a meeting on a park bench. "It was one of the 'comrades' [secret police]," he says. The agent repeated the conversation and demanded to know why Kuznetsov had not reported it. "I tremble when I write now about that conversation," he confesses...
...have whetted the appetites of space officials for further planetary exploration. NASA Administrator Thomas Paine last week urged the U.S. to send two nuclear-powered spaceships, one to serve as a rescue vehicle, on a two-year trip to Mars by the 1980s. Many scientists, noting that such a project would cost perhaps $60 billion, prefer less expensive unmanned probes beyond Mars. Last week 23 space scientists strongly urged "grand tours" of the outer planets in the mid-1970s. At that time, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto will be so aligned that a spacecraft could sweep past at least...
Thankfully, fiction is more entertaining than life. The Andromeda Strain tells of how a group of super-scientists (at least one of whom is a toned-down version of J. D. Watson) set to work in a secret, five-story, underground bacterial research center in Nevada--part of "Project Wildfire." Their object is to identify and neutralize a lethal virus brought back from the upper atmosphere by a Scoop satellite that has crashed in the middle of the Arizona desert. Since the enterprising virus multiplies at a giddy rate, they must, of course, do in the thing by the time...
...President Pusey personally unveiled plans for a Faculty housing project on the site, but opposition from neighborhood residents, many of them Harvard professors, killed the plans. The residents, led by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, said the housing would take up the last open space in the area, and cause street traffic and sidewalk congestion...
MOST OF THE housing proposals, for example, will require approval of plans or zoning changes by the City Council. And it is almost axiomatic that even if everyone in a city is in favor of more low-income housing, just about no one wants a housing project in his neighborhood. If a zoning change is requested to build a housing project on any given site, it's a good bet that thirty neighbors of the site will come down to the council to tell them why the project would ruin the neighborhood. It is difficult to build a countervailing force...