Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sank their spare income in the Autowelle, deserting bicycles and motor scooters for automobiles, and after that in the Wohnungswelle (new homes), and then the Reisewelle (fad for traveling). Now things are right back where they started, but on a higher, more sophisticated plane. Explained one Hamburg University political scientist: "Food is an obsession with Germany. It is the symbol of everything the people lacked in the poverty and destruction of war. The most effective way a German has to remind himself that he is now prosperous is to be able to afford the most exotic foods in the world...
America's leap into space has stimulated science and spawned new industries. It has also created a new idiom: space-speak. Many a scientist finds the growing, and sometimes incomprehensible jargon essential to the simplest conversation about new devices and techniques. But many a layman has become convinced that it is only one more irritating and unnecessary obstacle looming between him and a better grasp of scientific accomplishment. In a detailed analysis of space-speak for the magazine Science, University of Michigan Psychologist David McNeill suggests that there is something to be said for both points of view...
With Surveyor's graphic pictures and clear telemetry before them, scientists were able to draw their firmest conclusions yet about the lunar terrain. At a Washington press conference, they announced that the moon's surface pre sented no great obstacles to a manned lunar landing; its consistency is almost earthlike, and its bearing strength -about 5 Ibs. per sq. in.-is more than enough to support the weight of Apollo's Lunar Excursion Module. "In one sentence," said JPL Project Scientist Leonard Jaffe, "the moon surface looks like a soil, not very hard, with rocks and clods...
Erwin Dain Canham, L.H.D., editor in chief of the Christian Science Monitor and new president, the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Tough-minded but temperate, he authenticates the essential spirit of the encomium-a Christian gentleman...
...gosh, we're just snowed," exulted J.P.L. Project Scientist Leonard Jaffe. "We would have been happy if we had gotten just one picture." In one batch of shots, scientists found some that further emphasized Surveyor's charmed life. About 300 yds. from the craft, the camera picked out a field of boulders up to six feet in diameter. Had the spacecraft landed there, striking any stone at a bad angle, it might have toppled over. Said U.S. Geological Survey's Astrogeologist Eugene Shoemaker: "I think we were damn lucky...