Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head the Pentagon's missile-making Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy announced last week that he had secured the services of a scientist who is also a proven industrial manager: Mathematical Physicist Charles Louis Critchfield, 49, Ohio-born research director of California's Atlas-building Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. McElroy and retiring ARPA Director Roy Johnson could not talk Critchfield, father of four, into taking the job until they offered to hire him as a WOC (without compensation), pay his expenses ($15 a day), and let him continue to draw his Convair salary...
Some other physical sciences-such as geology and oceanography-seem to be pretty good, and Professor (of Engineering) Albert Dietz of M.I.T. was impressed by a research institute on the outskirts of Moscow devoted to pure research on concrete. The lab had developed a completely automated machine that produced concrete units on a vast assembly line controlled by a single man pushing buttons. But Dietz felt that the Russians are sacrificing quality for speed. They are producing an enormous number of concrete apartment houses by such techniques, says Dietz, "but they're building a lot of maintenance problems...
Among Zagat's proposals accepted at the meeting are encouragement of: research on an annual theme by delegates and students; informal discussion, forums and official action by student councils; participation in these discussions by student political clubs and groups; attendance by guests other than students at the Regional and National Congresses; and use of the Region to carry the theme issue to the National Congress and to serve as an information source at the Congress...
...officials have a good deal "thrust upon them." A majority of the responsibility for hostessing newcomers' teas, "visiting firemen's" dinners, and graduate and undergraduate meetings is theirs. Others elect a university affiliation: the Drs. Rudolph teach a course together on Indian Government and the Handlins work together on research. Mrs. Galbraith teaches German at the College while Mrs. Fainsod is currently working as a research assistant to Professor Paul Buck, and Mrs. Murdock is working on a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature...
...connection with the college. Mrs. Fainsod, for example, has found time to hold a job of her own for almost twenty years. Currently working on a history of the Eliot Administration at Harvard under Prof. Paul Buck, she has also worked as an administrative assistant in the Russian Research Center, as an assistant to the Director of the Shady Hill School and during the war she worked for the Boston Labor Board for the propaganda analysis subsection of the Justice Department. Previous to this, in the thirties "when jobs were hard to get," Mrs. Fainsod did volunteer work...