Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task force notes that "misinformation abounds." The "homosexual orientation" is not a ground for despair. Endorsing the findings of pioneering research that have accumulated in the past two decades, the group says that "many homosexuals are good citizens, holding regular jobs and leading productive lives." Psychiatric treatment permits about 30% of adults who seek help to enjoy a normal sex life. An even larger percentage of children who are incipient homosexuals can be reached in time to avoid the condition entirely...
...delve into the still uncertain patterns and multiple causes of homosexuality, the task force recommends establishment of a major U.S. center for the study of sexuality-from sex patterns in animals to all kinds of normal and abnormal human sexual behavior. Too often in the past, it says, competent researchers have been discouraged from entering the field by the taboos that surround it-and by the difficulties of obtaining research funds. Other key points: teachers and youth-group counselors should be better informed about homosexuality so that they can help rather than hector the young; law officers should be given...
...Hooker report's sobering implication that society has been grossly unfair to the homosexual is sure to stir controversy, and its recommendations are bound to be adopted only slowly. Still, the research makes clear that Americans can now recognize the diversity of homosexual life and understand that an undesirable handicap does not necessarily make everyone afflicted with it undesirable...
...three winners are still actively engaged in research, Delbruck at the California Institute of Technology, Luria at M.I.T. and Hershey at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's genetic-research unit at Cold Spring Harbor. Only a fortnight ago, when the three met and compared notes, none had any idea of the honor that the next week would bring...
...head of the council, he also made a lasting impression on the Vice President, Richard Nixon. Burns left in 1956 to become president of the privately endowed National Bureau of Economic Research, but continued as Nixon's personal economic adviser. Last winter, just before being named Special Counsellor to the President, he suggested that the tax increases and spending cuts then contemplated would not be enough to contain inflation. Once ensconced in the White House, he optimistically judged in April that it would be reasonable to expect the Administration to bring the rate of inflation down...