Word: scientists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...behind the move, University of California Political Scientist Robert A. Scalapino, has worried that too many of the dissenters' caricatured criticisms were debasing discussion of the war, and that noisy campus demonstrations were convincing the nation and world of unanimous dissent by U.S. intellectuals. Scalapino conveyed his feelings to 13 colleagues, including Columbia's A. Doak Barnett, Harvard's Oscar Handlin and Edwin Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Under the sponsorship of the Freedom House Public Affairs Institute, a non-partisan educational organization, they got together for three days in October at Tuxedo, N.Y., and began...
...logic is easy to see. Without graduate deferments, it is true that "oldest-first" would have meant a virtual depletion of men very near the practice of their profession, whether it be engineer or political scientist. Under the new system, however, not nearly so many older men will be taken. They will be replaced by 19-year-olds, men hardly close to or even sure of their future profession...
...first place, it is startling to observe how a single procedure can turn a controversy that might have been limited to a laboratory into everybody's business; for example, the injection of live cancer cells into unknowing, unconsenting subjects. Suddenly almost everyone begins to watch the medical scientist: his privacy and the privacy of his laboratory are abruptly invaded. The invasion of privacy works in two directions; it can involve the investigator no less than the subject...
...scientist recognizes the need for straightening out his own house and he has attempted to do so through the establishment of guiding codes. In most cases these are quite unrealistic and quite unsatisfactory. Their problems and shortcomings are great...
Died. Robert Helberg, 61, Boeing aircraft scientist, builder of the immensely successful Lunar Orbiter spacecraft; of a heart attack; in Seattle. As the prime contractor's man in charge of the venture since inception in 1963, Helberg gets much credit for the five camera-bearing vehicles that whizzed around the moon and snapped some of the most dramatic pictures in all science...