Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Erwin Wilson will retire, Washington pundits speculate on who will succeed him. Last week a logical candidate moved closer to the job. Into the second-in-command post of Deputy Secretary went slight (5 ft. 9 in., 140 Ibs.), mild-mannered Donald A. Quarles, 62. In 1955 Industrial Scientist Quarles (Western Electric, Bell Labs) succeeded the late Harold Talbott as Air Force Secretary, impressed Wilson and Washington by quietly, capably directing a crack Air Force. At Defense, Quarles succeeds Reuben Robertson Jr., who is leaving after two years to return to private industry (Champion Paper & Fibre...
...sound thinker who takes balanced viewpoints, Engineer-Scientist Quarles as Air Force Secretary maintained deep interest and close touch with his first love-research-but never favored it unreasonably. Nor has he overfavored the Air Force itself.* Preparing a 1958 budget, Quarles helped trim preliminary requests totaling $23 billion down to $17.7 billion. Then he went up Capitol Hill to assure Congress calmly that, rather than ask for more, he felt $17.7 billion was sufficient to buy the kind of airpower the U.S. needs...
...somewhat encouraging to note that the outstanding scientists of this century show an increasing interest and a striking ability in the study of philosophy. Dr. Oppenheimer has more than proven his abilities as a scientist, and while a judgment of his philosophy might be presumptuous and premature, his recent books, Science and the Common Understanding and The Open Mind have been recognized as the work of a major mind...
...sort of put it on the back burner." But interest in missiles was picking up, and one of the reasons was Schriever's visionary enthusiasm. Everywhere he debated and discoursed upon the values and virtues of missiles, missiles, missiles with such fervor that, according to one friendly scientist, "they thought Ben was insane...
...order for even so formidable a talent as Boyer's, considering the staggering handicaps of the script. In his 90-minute TV adaptation of the Robert E. Sherwood play, Radio Writer Morton (The Eternal Light] Wishengrad shed little light on the character of the Nobel Prizewinning medical scientist who has a hard time realizing that "intelligence is impotent to cope with the brute of reality." The reality in this version of the oft-revised play was the revolt of fellow Hungarians. Until his final hour, the pacifist-minded doctor could see little purpose in getting involved, though...