Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last to Go. "There are people in Congress," says a leading scientist, "who feel that basic research is useless, something that scientists do to amuse themselves. So there is a tendency in Congress to cut basic research funds. When a person is budgeting, the first thing he is likely to cut out is his savings account. Basic research is like that savings account; it should really be the last...
...declared operational, train the missile crews, then turn everything over to the Strategic Air Command. His assignment came about because such Air Force officials as Brigadier General John W. Sessums and Research and Development Specialist Trevor Gardner had insisted that an ICBM should be built, and Princeton Atomic Scientist Dr. John von Neumann had argued that nuclear explosives could be made compact enough for missile delivery...
...President has chosen wisely in selecting this distinguished educator and scientist," he said. "I am certain she will serve with distinction...
...town is Platonov, a napless Don Juan whose bumbling charm creates a pentagonal affair that stirs up billows of social mud. While trying half-heartedly to stick by his angelic wife ("I don't want happiness, I want you"), Platonov intermittently toys with a flighty young female scientist, fights off the amorous intentions of a beautiful widow, and rekindles an old college flame. Meanwhile the widow collects an entourage consisting of a lecherous old landowner, his Paris-educated fop of a son, a weasling Jewish merchant, and a brash horse thief named Ossip. Platonov's brother-in-law, a boozing...
Miss Barbara Groneweg, West German educator and political scientist, is planning to study adult education programs and volunteer political activity in the United States. Dr. Alexandra Pittelli, of Brookline, will complete training for her residency in pediatrics and at the same time fulfill the requirements for board certification...