Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who care neither for the religion of Christ nor Moses. No Christian in the land could have less deserved these attacks than Dr. Buttrick, for Dr. Buttrick is as tolerant in his personal relations as he is eloquent in the pulpit. But behind the "Mem Church" uproar lay a deeper issue that divided a university with a strong secular tradition, fostered, among other Harvard presidents, by Unitarian Charles W. Eliot (1869-1909), Unitarian Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1909-1933), Scientist James B. Conant (1933-1953). The issue, whose significance goes far beyond Harvard: How religious can a secular university...
President Eisenhower likes to scoff at last fall's uproar over Sputnik as the "Sputnik attitude"-a period of frenzy that the U.S. would do well not to repeat. But Texas Democrat George H. Mahon, hard-working chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, warned his colleagues last week that the Sputnik attitude has vanished too fast for the nation's good...
Most immediate to most undergraduates was the uproar over the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James Lecturer...
...Denver, which somehow supports 19 strenuously competitive radio stations, it takes a major uproar to attract the listeners' undivided attention. Last week the uproar was being provided by a self-styled boy genius named Don Burden and his newly bought radio station KMYR. Burden, a lively pitchman of 29 who owns two other stations, made his pitch by announcing a $50,000 "Treasure Hunt." The old scheme has seldom been so doughtily exploited. College boys plastered downtown store windows with promotional stickers, annoying merchants so much that KMYR ran a newspaper ad apologizing. The first hints as to where...
Carbon 14. As that uproar quieted, Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling, 57, head of the chemical labs at the California Institute of Technology, made headlines with his newest point: the most dangerous element of nuclear-test fallout over a period of five to 10,000 years is not strontium 90 but carbon 14, a low-radioactivity but long-lived (half-life: 5,568 years) isotope that from tests already held will, said Pauling, cause 5,000,000 defective children in the next 300 generations. Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, one of the world's top authorities on carbon...