Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buck Henry's screenplay crudely compresses Robert Merle's good novel of the same title about a research scientist's growing moral responsibility and political commitment. In the book, the scientist was forced to take sides when he found that his "pure" research had been manipulated by rival government agencies until it was virtually perverted...
...dolphins are kidnaped from the scientist (Scott) and trained to blow up the President of the U.S. as he vacations aboard his yacht. The would-be assassins are a cartel of cliches: a loudmouthed, cigar-chomping Westerner, an unctuous Middle European, a fatherly Ivy League type. The movie makes their plot a matter of as much concern and surprise as whether Pearl White will be cut loose from the railroad ties be fore the locomotive flattens...
...Chairman. 1969. An unthrill thriller about an American scientist to mission to the People's Republic presents a decidedly unflattering ludicrously inaccurate picture of mainly China. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color...
Died. Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, 81, a British government scientist who developed the first practical radar system; after a long illness; in Inverness, Scotland. A member of the same family to which the inventor of the steam engine, James Watt, belonged, Watson-Watt worked on what was then called "radio location," a process of bouncing radio waves off distant objects. Tested by tracking the plane that carried Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Munich and back in 1938, Watson-Watt's aircraft-spotting radar later helped his country repel German attacks during the Battle of Britain...
...presence in orbit during the comet's passage is an incredible bit of luck. If the comet had arrived a month or so later, or Skylab had been launched only slightly earlier, the space station would not have been available for the important observations. Says Astronaut-Scientist Karl Henize: "All through the space program, we've been looking for a Rosetta stone-what is the primordial material out of which the solar system is made? We looked for it on the moon and we didn't find it; we found other things instead...