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...Soviets sent two somewhat contradictory replies to his ultimatum, one hard and one more accommodating, Kennedy simply ignored the hard message and replied to the softer one. It worked. Khrushchev blinked, and in the memorable denouement, the Soviet ships turned and steamed away from Cuba. Says Harvard Political Scientist Richard Neustadt: "The Administration set a new standard of prudence in dealing with the Soviet Union. The standard of prudence, the hard thought given about the crisis as the Soviets would see it, thus giving our opponent as much room as possible-these were a model of presidential conduct...
...administrative skills, however, Dowling is enough of a scientist that, as for other experimenters on campus, taking on the job of dean would probably destroy his career...
...ready to give up being a scientist yet." says Dowling. And it is sentiments such as this--combined with a sense as one official says, that the scholar may lack some of the "bite" needed for the job--that diminish for a number of observers the likelihood of Dowling becoming dean...
...money is the least important part of the prize. The most important part for a scientist is recognition among one's peers," Ernst Mayr, Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus, said yesterday...
...fact, replacing nuclear weapons work with non-nuclear (preferably non-military) contracts has been consistently shown to create more jobs per dollar, and more support jobs per scientist. Voting YES on Question 2 is a vote for jobs...