Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible for me to nominate one Man of the Year, so I'll have to name two: Dr. Norman Borlaug, the agricultural scientist who has developed a dwarf wheat that can give mankind a 20-year respite from famine; and Dr. Alan Guttmacher, head of Planned Parenthood-World Popu lation, which hopes to avert this famine by curtailing population growth...
Once in a while, the guts are tacitly tolerated by the school to preserve the eligibility of dim-witted athletes. Many more, however, simply reflect the good intentions of such kindly professors as Stanford Political Scientist James T. Watkins IV, who rarely awards anything less than an A on the lovable notion that "There is too much tension in the university-I don't want to add to the general insecurity and unhappiness of the community...
...Tennessee Valley Authority's two new 1,065,000 kilowatt private nuclear-power plants, to be built at Brown's Ferry, Ala., is expected to produce electricity at a cost of only 31 mills per kilowatt-hour. The new competitiveness of the atom, says one Government scientist, has "really put the fear of God into the coal industry...
...involved," he said. Mathematicians, for instance, who, for the most part, receive their government funds from the National Science Foundation, must file effort reports, since the NSF issues grants--as opposed to contracts--and therefore requires cost-sharing by the University. Harvard's share becomes a portion of the scientist's salary, and the scientist must therefore report on this money's use by filing effort reports with the government...
...When a scientist fills out an effort report, as many at Harvard are now reqqired to do each month, he reports to the government how much "effort" in percentage of his total working load he puts in on research supported by the government...