Word: scientist
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...Harvard scientist said yesterday that industrial and agricultural pollution of the upper stratosphere could cause a 20-percent increase in skin cancer rates in the United States...
Died. Sir Julian Huxley, 87, British biologist, older brother of the late novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of Victorian Scientist-Sage Thomas Huxley; in London. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Sir Julian was an atheist and self-styled "humanist" and an astonishingly prolific writer; his 48 major books range from candid autobiography (Memories) to probing studies of evolution. As UNESCO's first director-general (1946-48), he gained widespread attention as a doomsday prophet, warning against such dangers as the population explosion and man's neglect of his environment...
...reason for the vulnerability of executives in the current recession, says Social Scientist Peter Drucker, is that middle management in the past 20 years has grown three times as fast as total employment, and executive ranks are bloated. Hordes of postwar babies-now 28 years of age on the average -are crowding into middle-management positions in the $25,000-and-up level. Says Eugene Jennings, professor of management at Michigan State University: "The older employees seem to be blocking up the corporate arteries." More than ever before, these middle-aged middle managers are being replaced by younger ones...
Died. William D. Coolidge, 101, scientist and inventor; in Schenectady, N.Y. After joining General Electric's pioneering research labs in 1905, Coolidge discovered the method for drawing out of tungsten the hair-thin filaments used in incandescent light bulbs, and later perfected "the Coolidge tube," which remains the basis of modern X-ray units...
Says University of Michigan Political Scientist Michel Oksenberg: "It's very much in keeping with Mao's style to withdraw upon occasion for a period of quiescence, realizing that the overall forces in China are such that a period of unity is called for and that even his presence is not particularly helpful for that." Of course, it is conceivable that in the coming months Mao might register dissatisfaction with recent events. But it seems more likely that his absence is a voluntary move by a man who, despite his treatment as a living god, has had some...