Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.S.F.'s top goal is that "every young person who shows the desire and the capacity to become a scientist should be ensured the opportunity to do so." The nation evidently has plenty of potential scientists. On the basis of current trends, the number of U.S. scientists and engineers should almost double by 1970 to 2,500,000. The problem is giving them "the best science education we know how to give...
...dust gatherer is a bother to the housewife, but it is a boon to the scientist. By sending rockets into space to trap meteoric dust, scientists hope to learn some of the secrets of the great void beyond the earth's atmosphere. Last week they were evaluating the catch of the best dust gatherer yet developed: an Aerobee-Hi sounding rocket, which unfolds its nose toward the top of its climb and spreads out eight graceful petals into space like a great mechanical flower...
...last night's forum, Professor L. Chen, a political scientist at the National Taiwan University, discounted allegations in the American press that the government of Chiang Kai-shek is engaged in suppressing the civil liberties of political dissenters. Chen pointed out that he, a non-party man, has been teaching political philosophy at the University for 15 years without governmental interference. He denied also that the government was dictatorial...
...greedy ones, when they were in power, says Williams, Christian principles did not have a prayer. One of their principal sins was wild territorial expansion, such as smirched Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin ("It is difficult to think of Franklin as a scientist if only because he invested so much time and intelligence in land speculation"). This expansionist drive brought on the Civil War as well as World War II, says Williams, and has been checked now only because Russia has nuclear bombs. Other sins of the greedy guys: the policy of "laissez nous faire," carried...
Karl W. Deutsch, prominent political scientist from Yale University, will also participate. Also on the program are Lincoln P. Bloomfield, associate professor of Political Science at MIT, and John N. Plant, instructor in Government at Harvard and student of Latin American affairs...