Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combed your wide land for a real scientist, and all you could find was a ruddy Hungarian...
...Vice President, his efforts to serve and to learn have brought him into contact with experts in every field of governmental activity. One recent week, surveying the scope of U.S. missile programs and potentialities. Nixon talked to Air Force Missile Chief Bernard Schriever, Army Rockets Boss John Medaris, Army Scientist Wernher Von Braun, Physicist Edward Teller and Presidential Science Adviser Killian. That same week he surprised Dr. James G. Miller, head of the University of Michigan's Mental Health Research Institute, with his knowledge of behavioral science (Nixon is convinced that the U.S. is substantially ahead of Russia...
...about equal to the U.S. in aircraft and radar development, is ahead in ballistic missiles. Said Teller: "I would not say that the Russians caught up with us because they stole our secrets. They caught up with us because they worked harder. A Russian boy thinks about becoming a scientist like our young girls dream about becoming a movie star...
...Research and Development, urged a revamping of the Armed Forces Unification Act "so that we can have in this country unified central military planning that transcends the interest of any particular service." Lieut. General James Doolittle warned that the U.S. must overhaul its educational system. "Certainly," said he, "the scientist and the educator must be given more prestige and more pay." Beyond that, said Doolittle, the Defense Secretary needs the services of a new type of general staff, i.e., "an advisory military staff to assist him in resolving the honest differences of opinion that now occur between dedicated military people...
...Packard's major troubles is that he is a journalist, not a social scientist, and cannot evaluate the information he examines. Often, he is overly credulous in believing the effectiveness of the newly discovered techniques and in the incomplete explanations of behavior offered by those engaged in "motivational research." In his desire to sermonize, Packard does not really realize the good done by the motivational research expert, both in finding what people really need and also in broadening knowledge about human behavior...