Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year for 1960 reflect the wide scientific spectrum, with all its communal interests and all its conflicts. On one side is Harvard's Nobel Prizewinner Robert Woodward, famed for his syntheses of quinine, cholesterol and, in 1960, of chlorophyll. Woodward seeks no practical application for his work, saying: "I'm just fascinated by chemistry. I am in love with it. I don't feel the need for a practical interest to spur me." At an opposite pole is M.I.T.'s Charles Stark Draper, an engineering genius in aeronautics and astronautics who describes himself as nothing more than "a greasy-thumb...
...Kennedy named him Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Douglas Dillon met in Paris with diplomats from 19 other nations to sign the charter of a new international outfit called the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The aims of the charter very much reflect Dillon's own long-range attitudes. The idea is to build a sound international economic structure, with emphasis on free trade and joint Western development of the fledgling nations. In his new Treasury job, Dillon will be looking through the other end of the telescope. He will be charged...
...purpose as a collectivity organized for action in history." To Murray, the civic consensus is constructed neither of psychological rationalizations nor of economic interests nor of purely pragmatic working hypotheses. "It is an ensemble of substantive truths, a structure of basic knowledge, an order of elementary affirmations that reflect realities inherent in the order of existence...
...Mexican born in Germany of Italian parents, Cetto defended the principle of nationality in his field. Architecture is a highly socialized art, Cetto said, and must reflect the peculiarities of the society in which it is created...
...eventual benefit of the Kennedy Administration. But in the short run, the Administration came in for heavy criticism. The cause was not helped much by Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson, who, in Paris for a NATO meeting, stressed that the actions of the outgoing Administration "do not necessarily reflect" Kennedy Administration policies...