Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says, "I have become convinced that most intellectuals are secret Platonists who feel that some how the messy, human aspects of life and politics should be brought under the control of enlightened men. In their view, politics should be a 'science' and the politician a 'political scientist.' " If the President still cares seriously about resolving the conflicts and getting along with the intellectuals, John Roche may well prove the ideal catalyst...
...year is 1995, and the science of micronics has learned how to reduce objects and even people to the size of a bacterium-for 60 minutes. After a Czech scientist discovers how to prolong miniaturization, U.S. agents spirit him across the Atlantic. Alas, before he can explain the discovery, he is attacked by enemy operatives and left in a coma caused by a blood clot in midbrain. Since no conventional operation is possible, the high command approves a daring plan: a miniaturized submarine with a crew of shrunken specialists (led by Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch) is injected into...
...proportions of prosperity that there are not nearly enough white South Africans to keep the factories going. The government advertises for white immigrants in newspapers throughout Europe, attracts more than 3,000 a month. Its propaganda organs beat the drums for "more white babies." Last month a Cape Town scientist declared that, with proper training, baboons could replace Africans in menial tasks-a suggestion that led the Rand Daily Mail to quip that Verwoerd would soon offer them their own Baboonstan. But so hungry is the nation for manpower that employers everywhere are forced to give non-whites ever more...
...have been less than thorough in explaining its origins. In the 145-page second issue, published this month, Political Science Professor Louis Midgley of Brigham Young University presents a surprisingly sympathetic Mormon criticism of the late Paul Tillich's vision of a nonpersonal God. In another article, Political Scientist J. D. Williams candidly reports that the Mormon hierarchy appeared ready to endorse the John Birch Society earlier this year, but after pressure from one group of church elders, "stepped back from the abyss." In an implicit criticism of the church's policy of barring Negroes from its priesthood...
...treetop leaves and that such acquired characteristics could be passed on to offspring. In rebuttal, Glass argued that man's use of fire as well as clothing changed his environment enough "to make hairiness an inconsequential feature, except on the more exposed parts of his anatomy." Countered another scientist: What about "man's retention of abundant tufts in the axillae and pubic regions...