Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nature's Relics. Since they published their findings in Science last month, Chester C. Langway Jr. of the U.S. Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab at Hanover, N.H., and his three Danish collaborators have been deluged with requests for ice specimens. The interest of other scientists is understandable. The ice now being preserved in deep freezes at Hanover may contain a wide assortment of nature's rare relics, ranging from evidence of past cosmic-ray bombardment to bubbles of ancient trapped air that will tell much about the composition of the earth's atmosphere...
...Research groups composed of educators, psychologists, advertising people, film makers and children's authors met at five three-day seminars in the summer of 1968. Simultaneously Dr. Edward L. Palmer, an associate research professor in Oregon's state system of higher learning, began working with children across the country. "We learned that what bores them is too much time spent on any one subject." Hence the short spots. Also, "Nothing loses them faster than an adult full-face on the screen just talking." Hence the Muppets, the graphics and the film clips. "We try to keep verbiage...
Eventually, anyone young and healthy in Holland was likely to be questioned by the Nazis. Boldly, Lind-Overbeek escaped to Germany. He worked, drank, survived bombardment, whored and eventually landed a surreal job carrying reports from an industrialist's factory, which did metallurgical research, to the German Air Ministry. When the war ended, he set off, walking, for Holland. At the border, he molted another skin, persuading British officials that he was really Jakov Chaklan, born in Palestine. With a new identity card, he journeyed to Marseille and smuggled himself aboard a ship loaded with refugees bound for Israel...
...Harvard faculty members have contacted top officials in the National Science Foundation (NSF) in an effort to convince them to ask Congress for a dramatic increase in appropriations for projects which, like the Cambridge Project. use computers for social science research...
...DuBridge. President Nixon's science adviser, and with aides to Sens. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) and Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and to Rep. Emilio Q. Daddario (D-Conn.). Kennedy and Daddario head Congressional subcommittees that recommend to Congress how much money to authorize for science research organizations like...