Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical," a "nigger lover" and a "Communist." Today, he is seriously considering quitting his field altogether because of demoralizing attacks, not from his old critics but from militant black students. "It is too much of a hassle," he says, "to try to be an impartial behavorial scientist when the sole criterion for knowledge, understanding or credibility is the color of your skin...
Such criticism may dwindle in the future. Last month the society's senate elected a new president, Physicist Reimar Lüst, a modest young (49) scientist whose easygoing and informal manner should fit in with the Young Turks ambitions to speed the democratization process. A U-boat engineering officer during World War II, Lüst was captured after his submarine was hit. Sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Texas, he began attending courses given by some P.O.W. professors. Lüst soon developed a liking for physics, which he continued to study in both Germany...
...Scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center figure that the odds of such a collision are no worse than one in ten. Says Project Scientist John Wolfe: "Pioneer should get through without any trouble at all." Still, the density of the asteroid belt, now estimated as one particle per 10 million sq. km., is one of the questions that scientists are now trying to answer, and they cannot really be sure. In fact, a surprise of the pre-belt journey is that Pioneer was hit by 56 tiny meteoroids, or about 50% more than expected. Fortunately, these impacts, detected...
...What if a form of life existed that could modify its own genetic message, deliberately and with the speed and flexibility, say, of Fred Hoyle's imagination? What if such a protean protein were invading Earth? This is the fear that seizes Dr. John West, Cambridge scientist, as he sees a bank robber on trial at the Old Bailey turn himself into a swarm of malevolent bees. Soon after, the bees become a pack of ravening wolves and then, successively, a series of the earth's largest life forms: an elephant leading a protest march and a grove...
...member of the Soviet establishment who falls from favor usually loses his dacha. When a top Moscow scientist recently applied for permission to emigrate to Israel, his country house was the first privilege to be taken away from him. These days dacha watchers are wondering if Pyotr Shelest, recently deposed as first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, will be able to hang on to his spacious villa and mile-long private beach on the Black Sea coast...