Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were so many Red spies coming to light at once?* Whenever one great power has a big espionage roundup, as Russia did last May in the trial of Russian Scientist Oleg Penkovsky, who turned out to be a longtime Western agent, spies elsewhere brace themselves for a period of rough weather. Furthermore, there is a seasonal factor involved; summer is the traditional time to put the finger on spies. Around the end of June, many Communist "diplomats" prepare to go home for vacations and new instructions. Having had an eye on them already, the FBI then often decides to pounce...
...students, Beverly Hills' teachers exult in teen-agers who devour not only college calculus but European university texts. "Intellectual enrichment" is so big at Beverly that 100 kids show up at 7:30 every morning for noncredit seminars on such matters as "The Social Responsibility of the Scientist." The school has 60 clubs, a college-level literary magazine, first-rate music groups, theater workshops, and art classes that fill one wing of the building. Its team teaching system cuts some teachers' classloads to 15 hours a week, allowing research for thoughtful lectures to colleagues as well as students...
...this talk about brains and dames in space is bunk, said Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, 36, back for a home-town celebration in Shawnee, Okla. "If there had been a scientist on my flight, I don't think we would have gotten him back." As for the ladies, said Gordo, "to date there have been no women-and I say absolutely zero women-who have qualified to take part in our space program...
Familiar pictures of lasers burning holes in diamonds (TIME, April 20, 1962) are no proof at all of death ray capability. Such feats, Thirring protests in Britain's New Scientist magazine, are accomplished by concentrating a powerful flash of laser light on a tiny area by means of a lens. It is a nice trick in a laboratory, but warheads plunging down from space hardly can be expected to carry lenses to expedite their own destruction. To fuse a steel casing weighing 100 Ibs. would require a laser light strong enough to deliver 807 kilowatts of energy...
This kindly, lucid scientist has called us all to look again where bees dance and spiders spin...