Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Rhyne Killian Jr., 53, who moved to Washington this week as Special Presidential Assistant for Science and Technology, is no scientist. He is an administrator with a rare ability to understand both science and scientists, to cope with the problems of both, to get men to work together, to get things done...
...puts it today, a "square" (pronounced, in his thick accent, "skvare"). Favorite amusements were chess, hiking, poetry and music. Among the subjects of his poems was a chum's brainy, grey-eyed younger sister, Mici (pronounced Mitzi), who shared young Teller's enthusiasm for mathematics and that special Hungarian passion, pingpong. Eventually they were married...
...contrast with Russian schools is staggering. In the Russian primary and secondary schools there is a standard nationwide curriculum. Children too dull to pass get shifted to vocational schools. The exceptionally bright are put into special schools attached to the universities. Scientific content of the standard curriculum: mathematics through trigonometry, five years of physics, four years of chemistry, general science (mostly natural history) in every grade beginning with the fourth. Warns AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss: "I can learn of no public high school in our country where a student obtains so thorough a preparation in science and mathematics, even...
...tone deafness toward science in our .society at large." If the public had an ear for science, then the taxpayers would be more willing to support pure research and science education, and more schoolchildren would get interested in science. Like many gifted scientists, Teller believes there is no special inborn talent for science, feels that talent is basically intense interest. The way to produce future scientists is to get them interested in science early. "Ten years old may not be early enough," he says, "but it is certainly not too early...
...child murderers, who just get life sentences and have a jolly good time in prison?"* Novelist Denise Robins rushed into print with a touching elegy: "Little dog lost to the rest of the world," it began. "Up in your satellite basket curled . . ." The distressed schoolchildren of Doncaster offered their special prayers...