Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article "Moscow High, Houston Low" [June 28], you revive the old "scientist-astronaut v. pilot-astronaut" issue in a way that is totally misleading...
...since 2001 has a movie so cannily inverted consciousness and altered audience perception as The Hellstrom Chronicle. It is a wry and scarifying cautionary tale, whose point is most neatly summed up by the fictional scientist-narrator Dr. Nils Hellstrom: "The insect has the answer because he never asked the question." In scene after remarkable scene, assorted species of insect are shown as unreasoning, unfeeling creatures who will survive the kind of atomic cataclysm that man, with his superior intellect, continues to shape for himself. "The true winner," says Hellstrom, "is the last to finish the race...
...China proceeded conventionally enough in the beginning, by the mid-1950s Mao decided that the great necessity was not to institutionalize socialism but to institutionalize revolution. To prod the country's historically passive masses into a ceaseless struggle for the new world, writes University of Michigan Political Scientist Richard Solomon, Mao made virtues of hostility and aggression, the two human characteristics most deeply suppressed by the Confucian ethic. "The more one hates the old society," Mao reasoned, "the more one will love the party and the new society." Notes Solomon: "Mao believes the intense sentiment of aggression...
Michigan General, a maker of abrasives, among other things, quickly smoothed out the situation. It changed the image. Vulcan was dethroned, the stacks were scrapped, and the stock certificates now show three men-a scientist, an industrialist and a workman. Informing its employees of the change, the company noted that smoke billowing from stacks, "once a sign of progress, [is] now an indication of unhealthy conditions." With the new certificate, it added, "Michigan General Corp. is fighting air pollution in spirit as well as in substance...
Died. Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, 66, Nobel-prizewinning biochemist; apparently of a heart attack; in Salamanca, Spain. As a researcher at Princeton's Rockefeller Institute, Stanley in 1935 was the first scientist to crystallize and identify a virus. He later organized Berkeley's internationally renowned virus laboratory, where he directed research that led to the isolation of the polio virus...