Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were with the 1st Division. At the Inchon landing in Korea, he was in command of the 1st-and led it through some of its finest actions. He seems to be the very antithesis of the roistering, hell-for-leather marine of song and fable. Quiet, bookish, religious (Christian Scientist), he never raises his voice, is famous for writing earnest citations for his men and modestly evading praise of his own heroism...
...fast on the surface of the earth. But if all goes well, one man will. Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp, a 45-year-old Air Force surgeon with the deceptive paunch of a country doctor, the ramrod posture of a professional soldier and the relentless curiosity of a dedicated scientist, plans to ride the Sonic Wind even faster. Space Surgeon Stapp intends to ride at more than 1,000 m.p.h...
...last 15 years, the work of the parapsychologists has been getting increasing attention in scientific journals. Last week, however, a scientist declared war on the extrasensory-perception school, and said it was time other scientists did likewise. Wrote Dr. George R. Price, a University of Minnesota medical research associate, in Science, journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "The findings . . . are dependent on clerical and statistical errors and unintentional use of sensory clues, and . . . all extrachance results not so explicable are dependent on deliberate fraud or mildly abnormal mental conditions...
...Westinghouse's Vice President for Atomics Charles Weaver and its top-drawer salesmen, swarmed representatives of 26 nations. Every prospect who looked good or even hopeful got a handsomely bound prospectus with pictures and detailed sketches of the reactor. When the time came to close the first sale, Scientist Weaver and Salesman de Cubas met with Fiat President Vittorio Valletta and signed...
...With this new knowledge, other nations could save years of duplicating research, speed up their atomic programs with less cost and effort. For the small, underdeveloped nations, in particular, the rich buffet of know-how was a memorable feast. Waving a thick sheaf of scholarly reports, one Israeli scientist declared happily: "This'll keep me busy for years...