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Johnson, a 44-year-old industrial management specialist, is the third non-scientist to be president of M.I.T. He joined the faculty in 1955, and since 1959 has been dean of the university's Alfred P. Sloane School of Management. Actually, yesterday's ceremony was only a formality; Johnson became president on July 1 when Julius Stratton retired to head the Ford Foundation...
...inevitability of George - even though in private the President, feigning ignorance of .the fellow's real name, often refers to him as "Charley." Visiting the L.B.J. ranch, Hamilton, 27, seemed to settle comfortably into a new role as member-of-the-family. Although he is a Christian Scientist, he joined the Johnsons for Sunday-morning services at the tiny Episcopal church in Blanco, dutifully held the hymnal as wide-eyed Lynda did her best to concentrate on the services. Afterward, while the President stood to one side, George, decked out in a Continental suit and buckled shoes, autographed church...
...agricultural scientist, the world's exploding population combines with its dwindling food supply to pose a twofold problem: how to increase the crop yield on existing farmland, and how to make use of acreage previously considered uncultivable. In the Philip pines, Rockefeller Foundation scientists have successfully tackled the first part of the problem by developing a short, stiff rice plant that may increase the average yield of each crop as much as 800%. Planted in test plots alongside the standard brand, the new rice rises in lush plants that make its old-fashioned cousin look like a victim...
...What we really need, of course, is a piece of hardware that can determine a guy's politics." Neither the scientist who indulged in that whimsy last week nor any of his 450 military and civilian colleagues at the joint U.S.-Thailand Military Research and Development Center near Bangkok have any plans to work on such far-out equipment. Detecting and dealing with guerrillas is their basic task, and if they have not yet figured out how to spy on the enemy's innermost thoughts, they have at least gone a long way toward pin pointing his presence...
Each half-hour program deals expertly with one specific scientific advance and the personality of the pioneer who made it possible. "The scientist becomes a protagonist," says Herbert, "a man with a struggle." The premiere featured Cornell Zoologist Perry Gilbert and his studies on "Attack Patterns of Sharks...