Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Viet Nam, and when Henry Kissinger told Willy Brandt in Munich last September that 1973 was to be the "year of Europe," the Chancellor responded with a heartfelt "ah, at last." Viet Nam still intervenes, but merely postpones a growing list of issues. In the words of Political Scientist Frederick Northedge, of the School of International Relations at the London School of Economics: "There is a backlog of mutual adjustment to be made. Kissinger is aware of the possibilities of misalignment with Europe, and is trying to avoid them...
...photographic outpouring also pleased scientists at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, who found the pictures highly useful in initial identification and examination of the freshly arrived lunar rocks last week. Geochemist Paul Cast, the Manned Spacecraft Center's chief lunar scientist, noted, for example, that the closeups of the moon's surface were so clear that the orange soil showed up as a distinct band in the surrounding material. To Cast, those sharp color boundaries were another indication that the orange soil is young by lunar standards and a product of relatively recent volcanism on the moon...
...national interest. Both men are turning the criteria of decision making from what some Europeans cynically call "the savior attitude" to the equations of Realpolitik, implicitly abandoning the moralistic considerations that have dominated American foreign policy since Woodrow Wilson. "The world is becoming less ideological," says British Political Scientist Frederick Northedge, "and more concerned with survival...
...CASE HISTORY OF COMRADE V by James Park Sloan. A government scientist in the County of L- is accused of a statistical error and persecuted by an enigmatic bureaucracy. Kafka with mirrors...
...Challenger after its almost perfect landing only about 300 ft. from target near the Crater Camelot,* Geologist Schmitt made it clear that he regarded the stark, rock-littered valley as his special turf. "A geologist's paradise, if I've ever seen one," said the Harvard-trained scientist as he and Cernan began their preliminary chores: familiarizing themselves with the terrain, photographing the area and, finally, maneuvering the rover out of its berth in the side of the lunar module. Then, after a fast test spin by Cernan ("Hallelujah, Houston, Challenger's baby is on the road...