Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Yank is Major Steve Ross (Tom Neal), an Army pilot who was raised in Japan and speaks the language without a trace of an accent. He is therefore drafted by Washington to rescue an American scientist (Marc Cramer) from a Jap prison camp. The captive scientist appears to be the only man who knows the whole formula for completing the atom bomb. The Major forthwith undergoes some heavy-handed plastic surgery to give him buck teeth, slant eyes and a puffy face which make him look less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover...
From this point on, it is high-octane cops & robbers, ending with a slam-bang fist fight and a breakneck chase as the Major, Abby and the scientist dash for the water's edge and a waiting British submarine. In a simple-minded way, it is good, fast...
...first days in court Mrs. McCollum's lawyer called in a Presbyterian, a Methodist, a Lutheran, a Jehovah's Witness, a Quaker, a Fundamentalist, a Christian Scientist, to prove that Champaign's religious teaching discriminated against their faiths; but several of the witnesses said just the opposite. The school-board lawyers then tried to show that the issue was not between sects, but between religion v. atheism. They succeeded with Mrs. McCollum's father, Arthur G. Cromwell, who is president of the Rochester (N.Y.) Society of Free Thinkers. (Last spring he got religious training abolished...
Columbia's fortyish, bouncy Dr. Gene Weltfish, who teaches anthropology (the science of Man), is a woman, but that is not the only reason she is sometimes dubious about man's future. Like many another scientist (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), she is shocked by the horrors of a war in which scientific brains were deciding factors. In September's Scientific Monthly, Dr. Weltfish proposed a professional oath for all scientists, like the Hippocratic Oath which physicians honor...
...ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman tanks used to examine the area immediately after the explosion-airtight and lead-lined to protect the crews from radiation-hung with mysterious instruments which the Army's cautious scientists still refuse to explain...