Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starts with accurate pronunciation. "Then we go thoroughly into roots, prefixes and suffixes. We learn the story behind words, their meaning and use today." Run-of-the-mull samples: tenebrous, cachinnatory, sorbefacient. Says Glim-trained Joel, whose $1,000 prize would go toward his college education as a forestry scientist: "I'm interested in words. They...
After the nuclear explosion that atomized the planet Doris, the scientist named Mimarobe was seized by the space cadets and thrown into Captain Chefone's dungeon, accused of fouling the radiation apparatus that powered the electronic brain. As presented in Stockholm's Royal Opera House last week, this kind of interstellar meller was meant not for science-fiction escapists but for devotees of avant-garde music. Occasion: the premiere of Swedish Composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl's Aniara, widely hailed as the first operatic excursion into the world of outer space...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Lee J. Cobb in a play, by Loring Mandel, about a scientist's effort to construct an electronic replica of the human brain...
...when he went to Los Alamos as a key man on the Manhattan Project. His assignment was to provide the explosive power for triggering the first atomic bomb, assemble the bomb so that it would go off. On the eve of the first test at Alamogordo, Kistiakowsky, another scientist and a military police officer with a submachine gun guarded the bomb throughout the night...
...adviser, Scientists' Scientist Kistiakowsky can be expected to take up where James Killian left off. He should be helped by a high sense of mission. Says one of George Kistiakowsky's closest friends: "His first interest is in science, and to give up [lab work] for a while is very hard for him. He does think scientists have a very heavy responsibility to the nation, and I think that's been the overriding fact with...