Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dead Heat. In Melbourne, Australia, research uncovered the scattered remains of the great race horse Carbine (1890-1914), one hoof at Victoria Racing Club, one hoof in possession of an English duke, the body skeleton at Melbourne's National Museum, the head at the Auckland, N.Z. War Memorial Museum, the hide as upholstery of the president's chair at the Auckland Racing Club...
...deskbound Navy duty. Bad eyesight, the result of a boyhood rock fight, kept him out of shooting war. In wartime Washington, he originated the morale-building idea of awarding an "E" (for Excellence) pennant to outstanding war plants, helped set up the Office of Naval Research, wound up with the rank of rear admiral and the top medals a chairborne warrior could win: Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit...
...endless rumble of controversy. The wounding wrangle that followed the suspension of Physicist Oppenheimer's security clearance made Lewis Strauss many an unforgiving enemy among the nation's scientists. Conservative Strauss angered champions of public power by insisting on confining AEC's nuclear-power role to research and design, leaving the job of building reactors for commercial power to private enterprise. He drew much of the blame for AEC's heavily attacked (and long since canceled) Dixon-Yates contract, under which a private utility firm was supposed to build a power plant at West Memphis...
Faced with these compound difficulties, Harvard's political clubs offer a variety of programs--education in political technique, research on a prominant issue, an attempt to gain "influence within the body politic," and group discussion of a mutual political stand. But at least four-fifths of the College, ignoring these programs, stays away from the network of political clubs. Of the remaining one-fifth who belong, only a minority are active...
Premier Khrushchev's treatment of Boris Pasternak after the publication of Pasternak's Nobel Prize winning novel Doctor Zhivago is an example of what happens when a despot poses as an intellectual, James H. Bellington, Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center stated, at one of the four forums yesterday morning...