Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite that ghastly record, dirigibles may yet stage a comeback. With modern technology, says Boston University Aeronautical Engineer Francis Morse, they can be made as sturdy and safe as airplanes. Writing in Britain's New Scientist, Morse proposes a nuclear-powered, helium-buoyed craft that would not only restore public confidence in the dirigible but would also compete economically...
...Amusing, but not entirely appropriate," huffed one scientist in the A.G.U. audience, which greeted the bathroom research with polite but restrained applause. Pierce was unruffled by the cool reception. "If I had said that these were experiments on the breakup of water and had set it up as a laboratory experiment," he said, "then it would be taken very seriously. But as a matter of fact, it works perfectly in a bathroom and that's very much cheaper...
Classroom Dialogist. Claremont Men's College, near Los Angeles, has only 626 students, but it also has Bronx-born Political Scientist Martin Dia mond, 46, who has turned an offbeat set of experiences into a classroom asset. He learned how to intrigue a crowd and squelch hecklers while plugging socialist causes on New York street corners when he was the age of his students...
...advantageous. A student who had no worries about a low grade even outside his field on his graduate school transcript could be really adventurous. This would be a self-made kind of General Education. If the individual had only to become competent enough to earn a "pass," the social scientist without previous preparation might be willing to approach a middle-level Fine Arts course; the Social Relations major might brave Chemistry; the scientist might not be daunted by Milton or writing courses...
White Nights. Being way out in front of everyone else is nothing new to Gabo, whose real name was Naum Neemia Pevsner. His brother Alexei Pevsner, a Soviet scientist, recalls that the family in the remote Russian town of Briansk always said of Naum: "He does not go through the streets but over the rooftops." The question was on what rooftop he would finally perch. Sent abroad to study in Munich in 1910, Naum switched from medicine to the natural sciences, to engineering, finally decided on sculpture...