Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputy director at a salary of $20,160 a year. German-born, British-trained, with unique experience in his field, he was the obvious man for the job: Communist Spy Klaus Emil Fuchs, 47, onetime head of the theoretical physics department at Britain's Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, who slipped atom-bomb secrets to Russian agents, was caught and imprisoned in 1950. Released 2½ months ago, Fuchs flew to East Berlin, was made a citizen of East Germany almost as soon as the wheels hit the runway...
...seven research vessels that tied up at Manhattan piers, the most romantic was the Calypso of France, commanded by handsome Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, famed underwater explorer and author of The Silent World. Displayed on her deck were weird bits of equipment: submarine scooters, deep-sea motion-picture-taking devices called "halibuts," and an anti-shark cage. In her hold was a Diving Saucer, a two-man submarine designed to follow the ocean bottom down...
...most striking vessel was Russia's new Mikhail Lomonosov, painted resplendent white with the earth encircled by a satellite gleaming proudly on her bow. Much bigger (5,960 tons) than most Western research ships, she carries a complement of 131, of whom 71 are scientists. She can stay at sea for four months instead of the five weeks that is average for U.S. vessels. Her equipment is lavish, e.g., six deep-sea winches instead of the customary single one. U.S. experts who looked her over agreed that she could do almost any kind of oceanographic work, and the Russians...
Conant was nearing a Nobel Prize for his research on chlorophyll. He never got it. In 1933 Harvard plucked him out of the lab and elected him president (at 40) to succeed aging Abbott Lawrence Lowell (Cambridge was full of old professors, and its reputation had sagged). By World War II, Conant had hired so many outstanding new professors and administrators that he was able to spend up to 75% of his time away from Harvard, organizing atomic scientists for the supersecret Manhattan Project...
...John F. Gordon, 59, moved longtime (eight years) Executive Vice President Louis Clifford Goad, 58. In charge of G.M.'s automotive, body and assembly, and parts divisions since 1951, Cliff Goad has jurisdiction over all of G.M.'s general-staff activities: distribution, engineering, manufacturing, personnel, public relations, research and styling...