Word: scientists
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...science professors have felt that the historical approach is not in fact the best method of teaching science in general education, and have been reluctant to work in courses based on the 1945 plan, Finley added. They object to courses in which such material is taught by a non-scientist...
United Front. When Kennedy last fall tentatively made his decision to resume testing, many scientists and members of his own Administration opposed atmospheric testing on grounds that it not only was unnecessary but would stir up resentment abroad. One scientist who argued strongly for tests was Harold Brown, 34, a nuclear physicist and director of the Pentagon's research and engineering department. As Kennedy patiently waited out the argument, the doubters were turned into advocates as the chilling details of the Russian test series became apparent, largely through a detailed report submitted by a panel headed by Cornell...
...recent months, a whole new contingent has entered the field. Joe Palooka, showing no effects of his 31 years as world heavyweight champion, recently outwitted the Reds to rescue a U.S. scientist in Austria. Smilin' Jack, the aerial barnstormer, smiles no more-he is doing his level best to keep the Russians from sabotaging the U.S. space effort. Winnie Winkle went to Moscow as a fashionable emissary of the U.S. Department of Commerce; alas, she wound up in the Russian pokey steaming away time in the laundry on trumped-up charges of espionage...
Forest fires destroy millions of dollars' worth of lumber each year. But in some areas fires run second to the boring, chomping insect hordes that eat their way through the forest, leaving wide patches in ruin. Last week a Russian scientist reported considerable success in a kind of bacteriological warfare against a pesky caterpillar that attacks Siberia's vast evergreen forests...
...Computers don't like dealing with people," complained Air Force Scientist Charlton Walker last week. "They just don't understand our language." Walker's complaint was directed at the biggest remaining impediment to everyday use of computers: the fact that a skilled programmer must often spend days reducing the elements of a problem to numerical or electronic code before he can hold even a brief conversation with his machine. To remedy this, at least half a dozen U.S. corporations have been trying to develop a machine that can communicate in a speedier and simpler language-pictures...