Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quest of the U.S. military for tactical devices to implement the "claw" policy resembles rather closely the search of the fabled scientist for a universal solvent...
...what's new in medical science and what science reveals that it is [hard] for the man in the street to understand where science leaves off and science fiction begins." As a result, said Bach, the patient often reveres his doctor "who is the only real live scientist he knows [as] a dispenser of wonder drugs and a performer of life-saving operations." Worse, many a doctor is playing along with the myth: "He thinks that in order to keep his patient's confidence, he must live up to a superhuman role, and build the illusion that medicine...
...filled the air with fleeing Communists. On Danger, three Soviet airmen in a bomber escaped over the North Pole to find sanctuary near Boston; on NBC's Kraft TV Theater, two refugee Polish ballet dancers came to earth in New Hampshire; on CBS's Climax, a Russian scientist, carrying a horrifying canister of newfangled germs for bacterial warfare, almost made it to freedom before his plane crashed somewhere near Copenhagen. U.S. military and U.S. intelligence agents came off superbly in all these brisk encounters with the enemy, but the plays themselves were not very good...
Stapp, the careful scientist, recorded every novel sensation. He felt the risin; storm of the wind against his body, am the terrible thrust of the rockets. Durin; the five seconds that they burned, they accelerated the sled with a force of 7½ to 9 Gs,* pressing him back against the sea with 7½ to 9 times the weight of his body For about 2½ seconds he could see the track as a racing blur. Then his vision narrowed and blacked out altogether. Since he did not lose consciousness, he knew that the Gs had drained the blood...
...task is undertaken in the current issue of High Fidelity magazine by Frederic Grunfeld, who runs the Mutual Broadcasting System's Musical Almanac. Drawing heavily on the work of the eminent British social scientist and author, Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship, Lifemanship, etc.), Grunfeld develops in a series of case histories some basic principles of Diskmanship. Writes he: "A single record, properly selected and bestowed, can serve to establish beyond question the authority of the giver for a year or longer," and persuade the other fellow that he is hopelessly tin-eared. Some successful Diskmen...