Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been trying to figure out why the U.S.S.R. has slowly but surely been getting the upper hand in world leadership. Your June 2 cover story on Soviet Scientist Xesmeyanov helped me a lot in this respect. In the same issue, however, two photographs gave me a possible clue. One showed five U.S. Governors bowling with pineapples and coconuts, the other showed fifth-graders ''playing" at biology in Leningrad...
...tolerant in his personal relations as he is eloquent in the pulpit. But behind the "Mem Church" uproar lay a deeper issue that divided a university with a strong secular tradition, fostered, among other Harvard presidents, by Unitarian Charles W. Eliot (1869-1909), Unitarian Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1909-1933), Scientist James B. Conant (1933-1953). The issue, whose significance goes far beyond Harvard: How religious can a secular university...
...Make Some Money." Raytheon was founded in 1922 by famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scientist Vannevar Bush and his onetime Tufts roommate, Laurence K. Marshall. It remained a midget until World War II, when its sales rocketed from $4,400,000 to $173 million. But the firm came so near to disaster in the postwar defense slump that its directors called in Yankee Banker Charles Francis Adams, of the famed Massachusetts Adamses, to put it back in shape. (Marshall resigned in 1948.) Adams found a storehouse of talented scientists. But they loved research more for its own sake than...
Paul A. Siple, scientist-explorer of the South Pole Sc.D...
Another plea for the healing ministry came from the annual meeting of the Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston last week. Notable agenda item: the trustees' report on the two Christian Science sanatoria in the U.S.-at Chestnut Hill, Mass. and in San Francisco. These establishments resemble hospitals except that patients go there to be healed by prayer and not by medicine. They also provide training for Christian Science nurses, who learn their techniques of prayer and care in three-year courses (regular registered nurses need only a one-year Christian Science course). Enrollments, according to the report...