Word: proven
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...orgy" of revulsion against all traditional religious teachings. During my graduate study of history and philosophy of science, I became convinced that his special theory and all of its claims of evidential support are invalidated by unwarranted assumptions and circular reasoning; but trying to communicate this measage has proven a formidable task. Herbert Dingle, a renegade from the physics establishment, has tried to do so for many years in England; his new book Science at the Crossroads tells an appalling story of intolerant thought-suppression by scientific journals. An even more incisive dissection of the illogicality of special relativity...
...Cabot's uncle was Paul C. Cabot '21, former Harvard treasurer and co-founder of State Street Management and Research and Bennett's mentor. It was Cabot senior who trained Bennett and hand-picked him as his successor at State Street and Harvard. But the younger Cabot has already proven himself to also be wary of the financial management style his uncle and Bennett brought to Harvard...
...Office of Women's Education hardly seems to amount to encroachment on a traditionally male field. We should be gaining a few more female instructors, although most appointments are junior faculty; the University's plan emphasizes junior faculty positions since "in this way, faculties can develop a group of proven ability to be promoted from within to more senior positions." And the women who still hold close to 90 per cent of the clerical posts in the University, should receive more equal benefits and chances for promotion...
...service in the OSS and his close study of the techniques of other spy services, Alsop could write with coldly measured indignation: "Politicians have played tricks on each other since politics was invented. But this is not politics; this is war ... a genuinely terrifying innovation ... Any person proven to have used these techniques should not only be punished by the law; he should be banned forever from participation in American politics. For Watergate has been an attempt to alter the very nature of the ancient American political system...
...national referendum to approve Sadat's "October working paper," a broad-sweep charter that outlines the country's goals for the next quarter-century. Right now, Sadat is putting major emphasis on liberalizing the economic field. Unlike its oil-rich Arab neighbors, Egypt has few proven petroleum reserves, although it does have deposits of iron ore, phosphate, cobalt, nickel and copper...