Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lester, a behavioral scientist, went on the 1963 expedition that climbed Mount Everest to study stress among the participants. He spoke Monday to a seminar at the Ed. School on human behavior in extreme environments, following a slide presentation of the expedition...
...cocktail party to raise the $200,000 necessary to finance the expedition, Lester met the leader, Norman Dhyrenfurth, a Dutch mountaineer who invited him to go on the expedition. Dhyrenfurth thought it would be easier to raise money if he could tell people he had a behavioral scientist along to study stress...
...became the Errol Flynn of the B's," he says. He also appeared in several A-quality productions, though never in a lead part. Some typical roles: admirer of a dying Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939), suitor to Shirley Temple in That Hagan Girl (1947) and a scientist who played second banana to a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951). Two roles won him acclaim: George Gipp, the doomed halfback of Knute Rockne, All American (1940), and Drake McHugh, the playboy whose legs are amputated needlessly by a sadistic doctor in King's Row (1941). As McHugh...
...wars are likely to occur before this century's end. The five are: Schelling, a professor of political economy; Biochemist Paul Doty, head of Harvard's Science in International Affairs program; Physicist Richard Garwin; Chemist George Kistiakowsky, a former executive of the Manhattan Project; and M.I.T. Political Scientist George Rathjens, formerly a special assistant to the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency...
...five Sarah was a good enough fiddler to play chamber music with adults. By six she was giving concerts as far away as Chicago. When her mother married Henry Alexander, a political scientist at the University of Arkansas, Sarah was pleased. "He kept a dictionary on the dinner table," Caldwell recalls...