Word: restless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what scientists sometimes call "the restless universe" are a few unchallenged constants that have become the bench marks of basic research. Among them are absolute zero, which represents cold so intense that there is no molecular movement, and the speed of light, which was written into Einstein's age-shaking equation, E = mc2. Constant too is the decay of radioactive materials at rates that cannot be altered by heat, cold, pressure, magnetism, or any other influence.*Such reliability means that ancient tombs can be dated by the decay of carbon 14; the age of the earth's most...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Efrem Zimbalist Jr. stars in an adaptation of Carson McCullers' The Sojourner, the story of a restless wanderer...
Direct Approach. But Morris, 56, is a harddriving, restless fellow. From the start, he aimed for twin goals: improving life in the 31 sprawling counties of Little Egypt, and creating a school of excellence. He believes that "you can have pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake along with a practical, direct approach to society...
...that things like the Daytona riots develop. After being closed in by three days of bad weather, the natives became restless. When a policeman tried to stop them from tossing a girl up into the air on a blanket, a huge chant of "Go to hell" broke out. By the end of vacation, Daytona police had arrested an average of 100 students a day. Until they realized that it would end up costing them a great deal of money, most people thought it pretty exciting to be thrown in jail overnight, and it was definitely the way to be "cool...
...Pressure. The facts of life at the great universities, says California's Clark Kerr, who runs one, are that "undergraduate students are restless, and parents think their children are being sacrificed on the altar of research." To some extent, they are. Private and Government research grants have speeded the output of badly needed Ph.D.s, but in the process, undergraduate teaching has been sadly neglected...