Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drug, like a new movie star, is nurtured with care. It is "discovered" (often by a noncommercial scientist); it wins a contract with a drug manufacturer, who usually changes its name. It gets an advance buildup in medical and drug trade journals. At last, when ready to meet the public, it is launched on its career with a splash of publicity...
...CLIFFORD FRED RASSWEILER, 51, research scientist, who became vice chairman of Johns-Manville Corp., biggest U.S. maker of asbestos insulation materials. Son of a Methodist minister, Rassweiler worked his way through the University of Denver, got his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Illinois, worked for Du Pont, went to Johns-Manville as research director in 1941, where he developed numerous new products, including the insulating pad used on bazookas to protect the firer's face from burns. As vice chairman, Rassweiler skipped right over Johns-Manville's presidency, which became vacant last week with...
...Tampering. Despite its academic prestige, Reed's money-raising problems became so acute that Political Scientist Peter H. Odegard, its fifth president, resigned in disgust. Reed went looking for a savior...
Then, of course, we see the interesting spectacle of a deserted London occupied only by abandoned pets, the hunted scientist and several divisions of troops searching house to house for him. Even the success of this grand finale lies in the incidental glimpses of minor characters, searching soldiers mainly, not in the slowly mounting "tension," which consists mainly of sweat on the faces of the main characters...
Although we are not treated to a thriller (as the advertisement would have us believe) and although the central issue of a scientist's possible guilt and responsibility for the weapons he creates is no more than suggested, nonetheless what we do get is an absorbing and entirely original work. In these days of mass entertainment, mass produced, that is high praise...