Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polish fears have largely faded. "We are not sitting on our suitcases any more," said a Polish scientist in Szczecin. "We are here to stay." Peasants, assured by the government that there will be no forced collectivization, are expanding their holdings under a new government scheme that allows farmers to buy state land at low cost. Obviously with Vatican approval, Cardinal Wyszynski has sent Polish bishops into the area, proclaiming, "Poland has come here, plows and sows here, kneels and prays, believes and loves here...
...First Church of Christ Scientist in Berkeley, built to Maybeck's design in 1910, today ranks as a historical masterpiece. Within, it is a massive square room, spanned by two colossal, diagonal, arched timber beams. Outside, broad overhanging eaves, reminiscent of a Japanese temple, project over glass screen walls decorated with exuberant Gothic motifs. It might have proved a nightmare of clashing styles. But Maybeck took his cue from his materials and kept his eye on the site. As a result, the church appears to float from the surrounding hedges, ornamented by its own shadows and highlights and finished...
Arching Lines. Project Argus began with a suggestion from Nicholas Constantine Christofilos, 42, a remarkable engineer-scientist of limited academic training but highly original ideas. For centuries, scientists have known that the earth behaves as if it had a great bar magnet inside it; lines of magnetic force make compass needles point to the magnetic north and south poles. As magnetic theory developed, scientists realized that the lines of force must arch high above the atmosphere. More than 50 years ago they began to speculate on how charged particles such as electrons would behave in the vacuum of space near...
...Explorer satellites that such a radiation belt actually existed and conformed to the predicted magnetic contours, the Christofilos suggestion looked even more reasonable. But no one knew whether man could produce enough electrons to affect the whole earth or whether they would prove, in the words of one scientist, "a teaspoonful in a sea of natural radiation...
Christofilos heads a team of 12 to 15 scientists. He still has no degree in physics, and his Greek accent, Greek volubility and love of passionate argument keep him an outsider. (Asked for background on Christofilos, one top U. of C. scientist remarked frostily: "Well, my contacts have been with other members of the scientific fraternity, and Christofilos really isn't a member.") Christofilos takes his position in stride. For relaxation he drives his car (a 1957 Pontiac) or plays the piano loud. "For Nick," says a colleague, "all pieces are written fortissimo...