Word: scientists
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Friday, January 6 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC. 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guest Star Victor Borge plays a scientist who takes his cue from Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and sets his secrets to music to keep them from evil hands...
...stage to send only a tiny payload on one-way trips, and would require six years to reach Saturn, 16 years to Uranus and 30.7 years to Neptune. But the planetary timetable may soon be revised. An ingenious navigational technique and new space engines, says a Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist, could drastically cut travel time to distant planets as early as the 1970s...
...short supply throughout the country, and the government is not likely to give more than mere sympathy. Nor can the fruit farmers expect much of a break in the weather. Israeli Meteorologist Leo Krown has predicted that through January, local rainfall will be below normal -and the Brooklyn-born scientist speaks with authority. In each of the past 16 years, he reports in the Journal of Applied Meteorology, his new method for long-range winter rainfall forecasts for the eastern Mediterranean area would have been 100% accurate...
...Faculty member, does not usually close doors. Nat Sci 7 is in fact designed to open the door that locks science off from the rest of the world. Holton recalls telling some students about a science fiction story he enjoyed. "They were surprised to find out that a scientist is not just a person in a lab or on a platform. What is sad is that they had to find out by accident...
...manages to hide it behind a convincing skepticism toward anything about himself, but the cynicism does not run deep. "Everyone would occasionally like to retreat into his research for two or three years," Holton reflects. "But a university appointment is a great place from which to get involved. A scientist's life here can be almost kalaidoscopic. It doesn't have to be, but the bounds of human experience can be very wide...