Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of these common problems, U.S. educators are not standing idly by. Last year 14 educators, lawyers and businessmen formed a Commission on Financing Higher Education, with Columbia University's Dr. Frank D. Fackenthal as chairman and Columbia Political Scientist John D. Millett as executive director...
When Britain's Scientist Klaus Fuchs, an inoffensive-looking man of twisted brilliance, confessed that he had betrayed U.S. atomic secrets to Russia, the FBI was left with a baffling piece of unfinished business-how to track down members of the shadowy transmission apparatus which had kept in touch with Fuchs during his tour of U.S. atomic centers and passed his stolen information back to the U.S.S.R...
Elusive Materials. In designing nuclear reactors, Hafstad said, the scientist cannot depend on familiar, well-behaved materials. Most of them are useless. They absorb too many neutrons (and so slow down the reaction) or they are quickly damaged by corrosion, heat or radiation. The AEC is building a special reactor to test the performance of various materials for piping, shielding, etc. Until it has been in operation for some time, reactor designers will not know for certain what materials they dare...
Decisions of the President and Fellows on important educational policy, on all appointments for more than a year, and on the awarding of degrees also need the approval of a separate group, the 30-man Board of Overseers, before they are final. The Overseers--who at present include scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer '28, author John Mason Brown '23, and journalist John Cowles '21--are elected by the University alumni--five each year for six-year terms. In actual practice the Overseers at their monthly meetings almost invariably approve Corporation's decisions...
Most young people in the U.S. have a passive feeling about religion, and are confused about its place in their own lives. This is the conclusion drawn from a survey sponsored by the Young Men's Christian Association and reported this week by Social Scientist Murray G. Ross in Religious Beliefs of Youth (Association Press...