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John Giles Pierce, 19 next week, is a tall, husky youth with a yen to play with dynamite-or worse. Discharged from the Navy and also out on bond on a burglary indictment, he enrolled at Tyler Junior College. Aiming to be an X-ray technologist, he took practical lab work two hours a day at Mother Frances Hospital. In a back room at home he did such impractical work as making rockets that blew up ("The fuel was just too damn powerful," he explains...
...concentrates in a science is preoccupied with his specialty to such a degree that he fails to achieve a view of science as a whole and of the interrelationship of the special fields within it. A general education in science needs to be provided for the future scientist or technologist as well as for the general student. One could scarcely insist that all students of history or literature should learn some biology, for example, but that the prospective physicist or chemist need...
...will design the atomic world-the technologist or the architect? As the world's top atomic scientists headed home from Geneva, leaving heady hints of a new atomic age behind them, Swiss Architect Rudolf Steiger was ready with an answer...
ANYONE willing to go along with the proposition that a house is an Energetic Environment Valve, and that man is, among other things, "a self-balancing 28-jointed adapter-base biped" will find himself right at home with Richard Buckminster Fuller. Bucky Fuller is a super-technologist whose mission in life is to help the human race do more & more with less & less until, at the ultimate, it can do everything with nothing. Variously classified as a scientist, engineer, philosopher and architect, but innocent of formal education beyond a matter of months at Harvard College, which callously bounced...
...four of them together in a single panel to show the camera's range: Sweden's Gustav V ("the simple dignity of a democratic king"), Jersey City's Hague ("the arrogant power of a mayor"), Britain's Attlee ("the bewilderment of a politician"), and U.S. Technologist Vannevar Bush ("the serenity of a distinguished scientist...