Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical and industrial research labs in a new, 4,000-acre "Research Triangle." East of Charlotte's booming suburbs, Alcoa let $40 million worth of contracts to expand its aluminum plant. Over the South's best highway net, semitrailers snorted day and night to serve a state economy so vigorous that...
Radio for Cannon. For a while, he did basic physical research on terrestrial magnetism, which influences cosmic rays. But World War II had begun, and weapons came first. Van Allen was put to work on the development of proximity fuses, which called for something almost inconceivable in 1940: a radio transmitter-receiver that could stand being fired out of a cannon in the nose of a shell. At the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md., just outside Washington, Van Allen was a junior scientist in the proximity fuse business, but it made him an expert...
...other things from its viewpoint. Anyone who belongs to this milieu, or who can temporarily or permanently assimilate into it (which is easy, after a few years at Harvard), will find both books full of old friends sensitively observed and old enemies devastatingly put down. For any outsiders doing research on the attributes and attitudes of this group, Mr. Feiffer's two-volume oeuvre will be a necessity, almost a guidebook...
Arthur A. Maass, associate professor of Government and secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration, will become Professor of Government effective July 1. David E. Bell, research associate in the GSPA, will succeed Maass as Secretary of the School...
Three Faculty members have voiced qualified approval of the three and one-half year seminar program of accelerated course work and independent research which was proposed Thursday by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology and member of the Committee on Educational Policy...