Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Small Price. So far, the debate has been largely one-sided, since the scientists and technicians engaged in secret research have been unable to ex plain what they do. But professors in a position to speak out argue that much of the advanced work in their fields-whether they like it or not-is related to defense programs. Stanford Electronics Laboratories Director William...
Stanford Electrical Engineer Oswald Garrison Villard Jr., who considers himself almost as ardent a pacifist as his father, the famed former editor of the Nation, has long been engaged in secret work related to rocket propulsion and guidance in order to keep abreast of his main scholarly interest: upper-atmosphere engineering. "To know what is important in this field, you have to be in on the classified aspect of it," he says...
Despite the irritation of security and government red tape, many of the results of secret research eventually do get published, the professors insist. They also point out that most such projects have many nonclassified aspects that provide valuable training for Ph.D. candidates. At Michigan, for example, classified electronics research has produced at least 30 doctorates. There is also considerable nonmilitary fallout from secret work. A 26-acre antenna built at Stanford to help the U.S. learn how to detect enemy missile launches was used by Stanford Electrical Engineer Von R. Eshleman to bounce the first radar signals...
Many scientists point out that very little secret university research is applicable in Viet Nam. Protesting classified projects because of the war, contends Stanford's Villard, "is about as logical as objecting to paying your taxes by kicking the postman who brings the tax form." Even less is such research directly involved with the development of new weapons. The canceled secret projects at Pennsylvania on chemical and biological warfare, for example, were primarily designed to find out how to protect U.S. civilians against attack from an enemy using them. "It is not safe for the U.S. to be ignorant...
...much stock in it as we all pretend to. When we must put the great affairs of life in another man's hands, we almost always turn to the mature-even the fatherly-image." Royster has grown to appreciate the relatively peaceful Eisenhower presidency. "If there was one secret to President Eisenhower's political success-and it certainly was a secret from most of the political writers-it was the fact that the country just felt comfortable with...