Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep a single running, up-to-the-second record of any election. In the future, any home with a telephone will be within dialing reach of election computers; voters, says Dr. Hammer, will be able to call in their ballots without leaving their homes. As an optimistic scientist, he sees the problems of identification of voters as an engineering problem that will soon be solved. Someday, he says, a huge data bank may contain "voice prints" of eligible voters. Then, the mere sound of their voice on the telephone as they call in their choice, will verify their right...
...total mass of the galaxies, which contain all the stars and thus most of the known matter in the universe, is far too small to account for the declining rate at which the universe is expanding. The missing mass may now have been discovered. A Naval Research Laboratory scientist has found evidence that it exists in the form of a hot gas that fills the void between galaxies...
...catastrophes befall these people. Their trials are in what one character calls the "courts of kitchen drama," where sadness and hilarity contend in a constant, shaky equilibrium. The teenage scientist of In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All prankishly pipes non-toxic gas into neighborhood apartments, only to kill off all the animals in his father's pet shop. Still, such trials can end with severe sentences. The deserted mother's vision of her husband's eventual return is affecting because it seems so hopeless. The teenager, unable to face the consequences of his experiment...
...business going to offer this kind of set-up, this kind of a reward-in-centive structure? It seems obvious that the academic student will turn to the more "academic" professions: professor, researcher, scientist, lawyer--professions which involve freedom of intellectual activity. Furthermore, students are under the impression that business does not offer such intellectual freedom. The academically talented say they will be too constrained, too limited by the management level they are on, too limited to the manipulation of the great technocracy; business involves too much application and too little creative thinking. They feel that the role of manager...
Political scientist Richard Scammon and Congressman Donald W. Riegle (R--Mich.) will speak on the 1968 elections at 4 p.m. today in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. The discussion, sponsored by the Institute of Politics, is open to all study group members...