Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest skirmish in the battle between aesthetes and sociologists has proved inconclusive. Clive Barnes, dance critic for the New York Times, took steps to parry a Harvard sociologist's study of dancing, but his sarcasm couldn't diminish the deadpan humor of the scientist's study...
...people that you have heard today have given you historical background and yet many of them are social scientists, not primarily historians. We have found in working on contemporary China, for which you can get the larger funds for research, that inevitably you are drawn back--if you want to understand China--into developing historical perspective on your problem. This is true particularly in the Chinese case, and yet even a man trained in history like our colleague Franz Schurmann at Berkeley in his most recent book becomes remarkably unhistorical because he is being so brilliantly a social scientist...
Shortly before he reported for duty with his reserve unit during the six-day Arab-Israeli war, Hebrew University Scientist Isaac Harpaz, 42, proclaimed victory over a less obvious threat to his country. For several years hybrid corn plants in Israel-and in several European countries-had been under attack by a mysterious disease that dwarfed their growth, roughened their leaves and often completely destroyed them. The disease has now been routed, Harpaz reported, by his discovery that a little procrastination in planting will pay large dividends in healthy corn...
...fill one of two seats in a manned orbiting laboratory. He will be the nation's first Negro astronaut. Lawrence hawked newspapers on the street as a boy, worked his way through Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and became an Air Force jet instructor and weapons-research scientist. ·The prestigious University of Chicago appointed Dr. John Hope Franklin, 52, chairman of its history department. Author-Educator Franklin holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard, has taught at Cornell, Cambridge, Wisconsin and California, and co-authored a controversial eighth-grade textbook, Land of the Free, which gives generous...
...Asimov yearned for an audience larger than classroom size and recognized his limitations as a research scientist. "My scientific papers were respectable but insignificant," he admits. 'They dropped into the huge ocean of science without making a ripple." To make a bigger splash-and more cash -he decided "to read what other sci entists write and translate it into English." He has been a high-speed translator ever since...