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...Computer Scientist Chester Kazek Jr., 46, married and the father of two teen-age daughters and an 11-year-old son, works 40 hours a week as program-library coordinator for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico. He also spends another 15-20 hours as the assistant pastor of priest-short Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Los Alamos, where he takes care of all baptisms, will soon perform several weddings, gives instruction to converts and visits the sick. "I always had it in the back of my mind to work for the Lord," he says...
Russia has its problems with water too. Dams and irrigation networks on the rivers feeding the landlocked Caspian and Aral seas have diverted so much water that the sea levels have dropped alarmingly over the past decade-by 10 ft. in the Aral alone. A scientist says that the only way to restore the Caspian Sea and to slake the "colossal thirst" of users along the way, is to turn rivers now flowing north to the Arctic Ocean southward. Some international scientists fear that without the usual supply of easily frozen fresh water reaching the northern seas, the polar icecap...
...interview may reinforce the analysis of Political Scientist James Barber, who has tagged Nixon an "active-negative" President, one who gains little satisfaction from his accomplishments, has "a persistent problem in managing his aggressive feelings" and is engaged in "a hard struggle to achieve and hold power." Others see Nixon as relishing the lonely role of a martyr who suffers constant criticism for doing what he believes to be best for society...
...delegate powers to the President, then sit back and carp or applaud, depending on whether what he does is popular or unpopular. If it's unpopular, we can say, 'What a terrible thing. We wouldn't have done that.' " Berkeley Political Scientist Nelson Polsby; author of Congressional Behavior, finds legislators hampered simply by their need to get reelected. While the public expects Congressmen to be generalists, competence in a complex age requires specialization-a dilemma Polsby would resolve by urging constituents to expect less "omnicompetence" in their representatives so they can concentrate on their specialized committee...
Another dilemma working to the disadvantage of Congress is described by University of Rochester Political Scientist Richard Fenno, who wrote The Power of the Purse: Appropriations Politics in Congress. Fenno claims that most people "love their Congressmen, but not Congress." It is easy to like a legislator for his personal style and policy views, Fenno notes, but difficult to admire a Congress because it is expected to solve national problems-and it rarely can. Moreover, many Congressmen "portray themselves as the gallant fighters against the manifest evils of Congress; they run for Congress by running against Congress." As Congress thus...