Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object is to establish the Communists as the only credible opposition to the Gaullists, or as leaders of a popular front movement. But former Party Member Annie Kriegel, a political scientist at Paris University's turbulent Nanterre campus, doubts that they can become either. "The Communist Party," she says, "constitutes the opposition without being the alternative." Even so, 61% of the Frenchmen questioned in a national poll said that they would consider it normal for Communist ministers to participate in a future left-wing coalition...
...magazine Kindred Spirits by Northern Illinois University Anthropology Professor Gilbert D. Bartell and his wife Ann. The Bartells were looking for people to take part in a study of group sex. The results of that three-year study were published in a refreshingly unclinical book called Group Sex: A Scientist's Eyewitness Report on the American Way of Swinging (Peter H. Wyden...
Perhaps it is the inbreeding, or their isolation, or both, that cause the peculiarities of their behavior. Or perhaps it was my naive eye that saw what was not there. The natives have a distinct style. A behavioral scientist might understand the manifestations of this style; a tourist can only let the impressions reflect and magnify in the back of his mind's eye. Is something special in the way children congregate around the big tree and roller skate on only one foot? Is something special when they swing their arms downward and slap spinning wooden tops...
...scientists, in any case, agreed that the maria are probably quite alike, a view supported by the first Russian scientist to attend a NASA moon conference. Reporting on the 3 oz. of dust gathered last September from the Sea of Fertility by the automated Soviet moon probe, Luna 16, Geochemist Aleksandr Vinogradov indicated that the dark gray samples were very similar to the American lunar specimens from the Ocean of Storms and the Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 's landing site. He elicited even greater interest with his revelation that the Russians are planning still more sophisticated unmanned retrievers...
...indication of any life or concentrations of organic compounds. "This is the cleanest stuff you can find anywhere," commented the University of Bristol's Geoffrey Eglinton, one of 79 foreign participants at the conference. Nor did anyone find any trace of water-past or present; this prompted one scientist to comment that the moon was a million times as dry as the Gobi Desert...