Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disregard "a rather ridiculous suggestion that is made from time to time-I think the latest by Hans Morgenthau-that our airpower might include the use of tactical nuclear weapons." The President was referring to an article written for the New Republic by Morgenthau, the University of Chicago political scientist and inveterate war critic. Morgenthau argued that while the Administration's plan to "Vietnamize" the war will "change the color of the casualties," its goal is still a military victory. And the only way to win a war of national liberation, he added, is to deliver a crushing blow...
Last week, as the astronauts came home, a grim earthquake struck California, and one scientist suggested that the quake was a function of the lunar eclipse. Retaliation, perhaps, for the little moonquakes precipitated by the astronauts. Scientists may argue the potency of the moon's gravitational pull, but for laymen there can be some comfort in the notion that the moon retains a bit of its mystery and strength...
...precious cargo, NASA divided the rocks into two batches for the trip to Houston, shipping one with the astronauts and the other by special courier plane. So expertly had the astronauts operated as field geologists, that on future trips, said Paul Gast, the space center's chief lunar scientist, moon visitors should be given greater freedom to explore on their...
...terrible of the literary world, wise father of six children, radical intellectual, existential philosopher, hard-working author, champion of obscenity, husband of four battling sweet wives, amiable bar drinker, and much exaggerated street fighter, party giver, hostess insulter." Not bad, but incomplete. Add frustrated novelist, passionate movie dabbler, sexual scientist, terror of the TV talk shows, critic of the global village and, to the ladies of Women's Liberation, master male chauvinist...
...appeared to practice it despite the insults hurled at him. Of course the students wanted to talk polities. Teller maintained that he had no opinion on socialism or capitalism. But communism-well-that's something else. It seems that this friend of his was sent to Siberia. A good scientist, too.... Often the lady in makeup had to intervene between him and the students...