Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientist hammered hardest at ex-AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss (now Secretary of Commerce) and ex-AEC Consultant Edward Teller. Strauss and Teller, said the Science Advisory Committee spokesman, are "radicals . . . extremists of one viewpoint." He stressed the point that the Science Advisory Committee's now dominant voices, e.g., Killian, Columbia University's Dr. I. I. Rabi, base their stop-the-tests stand on purely technical, nonpolitical grounds. But he went on to say that Science Advisory Committee members feel that test stoppage, all science aside, will bring the "reduction of tensions," and "hope of a world that does...
Bell Telephone Science Series (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The University of Southern California's Professor Frank Baxter, whose TV fame rests largely on a pleasantly wind-blown approach to Shakespeare, turns popular scientist in Gateways to the Mind, which attempts to make sense of the human senses...
Fields of study represented include most of the humanities and social sciences-but no physics or chemistry. The only student classifiable as a physical scientist is Robert Taaffe, 28, an economic geographer from the University of Chicago. Theses will be keyed to the U.S.S.R., e.g., Azrael's comparative study of industrialization's social effects in Russia and the U.S. University officials have promised complete freedom of study, and the Americans have been warmly accepted socially. In one friendly bull session, a U.S. economist had even tried to convince a horrified Soviet wrestling champ that Americans do not really...
...Graduate School of Education will test and interview 700 students in Eastern Massachusetts schools, following their careers over a five year period in an attempt to examine the process by which an individual becomes a scientist...
Diplomatic Diet. To document their case, the authors-Captain William J. Lederer, U.S.N., an Annapolis graduate and special assistant to Admiral Felix B. Stump in the Pacific, and Political Scientist and Novelist (The Ninth Wave) Eugene Burdick-have chosen to write a series of fictional sketches "based on fact." They are really a series of crude, black-and-white cartoons...