Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kill, which accidentally act as truce flags. Slaughtering pure-bred animals creates a confusion in his mind between the theory of German racism and the practice of the gas chambers and starts him on the path to mental collapse. Although Walser occasionally lapses into stereotypes (e.g. the officious German scientist) and occasionally the symbolic brew of Germans, Jews, rabbits, love, and conception is gagging, in his attempt to treat more, his flaws are more understandable...
...biggest by far is the Uddeholm Co., which originally solved the one problem besetting ordinary stainless steel: sharpening it. An Uddeholm scientist 40 years ago devised a method for aligning the chromium particles into an even pattern so that the stainless blade could be honed as keenly as carbon steel. Uddeholm sold batches of that steel to Gillette in the 1930s, but stainless blades did not catch on because shavers found them irregular in quality. A sudden and tremendous demand began a year ago, after Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. brought out a blade coated with silicon plastic...
...Nunamiut Eskimos have shown no symptoms of the serious illnesses that can come from too much radiation, but no scientist can be confident that such symptoms will not appear. In the future, though, if the U.S. and Russia stick to their recently signed agreement to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere, the contaminated lichens of northern Alaska will gradually lose their dangerous radioactivity. The body burdens of the caribou will fall little by little. Eventually the people of Anaktuvuk Pass will be no more radioactive than any other Americans...
...Hansford Johnson. A charming, lazy British scholar arrives for a sabbatical year at a well-endowed New England college and discovers that it offers just the sinecure he has been looking for. An acid satire on the university-foundation circuit, written by the wife of Britain's Author-Scientist C. P. Snow, who was a visiting fellow at Connecticut's Wesleyan College...
...Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, the first university business school in the U.S. (1881). As imperial as it is impeccable, Wharton owns the university's departments of economics, sociology, political science and "regional science" (urbanization). "We'd all like to get out," mutters one imprisoned political scientist. Shrugs a Wharton dean: "I guess it's traditional...