Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final months of the International Geophysical Year drew near, President Eisenhower sent to eleven other nations* an invitation that was also a warning. Along with the U.S., the eleven had all sponsored IGY research projects in the Antarctic, and seven of them had longstanding territorial claims upon the vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent. Without some kind of international agreement, wrote the President, the Antarctic might well become a dangerous source of "political rivalries." Last week, after a series of secret preliminary meetings, the world's first Antarctic conference opened in Washington-and paradoxically enough, the international climate...
...polite Bachelor Richard Kao, 30, is a sort of industrial scholar. He has a Ph.D. in economics (University of Illinois) and another under way in mathematics at U.C.L.A. An alumnus of Santa Monica's famed nonprofit Rand Corp., he now works for a similar "think palace," the Planning Research Corp. in Los Angeles. To a man of Kao's training, Newsboy Abdel's quick mind was obvious. "His goal is good," mused Kao. "He wants to be an educated...
Severo Ochoa, 54, born in the Bay of Biscay town of Luarca, taught physiology at the University of Madrid until 1936. Then, with his family as sharply disrupted as his country by Franco's rebellion, Ochoa left to do research in Germany and England, came to the U.S. in 1940. After a year at St. Louis' Washington University, he joined Manhattan's New York University, intensified his research on enzymes, the catalysts of life. In 1946 he had a brilliant post-doctoral student, Arthur Kornberg. Within ten years Dr. Ochoa and colleagues found a way to make...
...were in the fold. Weiner & Gossage started an Irish campaign that featured ads ending in midsentence, sniffed at the Brazilian coffee bean (because Irish coffee obscured the burnished flavor of Irish whiskey), extolled St. Patrick's Day in Mexico City. In the interest of scientific experiment ("Irish whiskey research in nature's laboratory"), Gossage dreamed up the Irish Geophysical Year, to be held in McMurdo Sound...
...research project will be carried out by a University of Minnesota staff under Henderson's direction. It is jointly financed by the Ford Foundation and the Upper Mid-West Research and Development Council, a group of businessmen concerned with the serious lag in their area's economy...