Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...population of Japan was growing by almost 1,000,000 every year, warlords used population pressure as an excuse to conquer or dominate foreign lands. But World War II defeat brought more than one remarkable change. Last week, after six years of study, the government's Population Research Institute announced that Japan's birthrate has been cut in half, and is now one of the world's lowest. In 1932 the average family boasted 5.8 children; today it has under three...
...Last week the American Psychosomatic Society met in Manhattan, heard a panel of experts examine the kinds of personalities most prone to heart attacks, re-emphasize the dangers of stress. Even the "lethalness of a high-fat diet in our society," noted Dr. Henry I. Russek, consultant in cardiovascular research for the U.S. Public Health Service, "seems to be dependent on the 'catalytic influence' of stressful living...
...idea sounds like a far-out gag from one of his own movies, but Comedy Director Frank (It Happened One Night) Capra insists that this time he is playing it straight. After years of research he is anxious to get started filming the life of St. Paul, and he has already picked his leading man: Frank Sinatra. "I'll admit that at first Sinatra seems a little offbeat for the role," says Capra. "When I first mentioned it to him, I think he was shocked. But there's no doubt about his acting ability, or his depth...
...found that an explosion the size and height of Teak delivers its thermal energy in less time than a rabbit (or a man) can blink. Said the report grimly: "Retinal burns were produced in the rabbits at distances up to 300 nautical miles." This tended to support earlier Army research indicating that an atomic fireball bursting over a battlefield at night could produce mass blindness in soldiers scattered over a vast area...
...there is any restriction, at any level, to the free exchange of knowledge. Except insofar as restrictions are required by the exigencies of national defense, we believe that there should be no restrictions." ¶The Rockefeller Institute's Fritz Lipmann (1953 prize-discoverer of coenzyme A) cited a research group whose classified work in a fast-moving field became obsolete before it was permitted to be published. "Such instances damage the morale of the scientific worker." ¶Harvard's Percy W. Bridgman (1946 prize-physics of high pressures): "If I think that my colleague may be able...