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Never before has the U.S. scientist been so important to government and industry. But does that mean he never had it so good? Last week at Indiana's Wabash College, Norbert (Cybernetics) Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., flatly answered no. Politics aside, said he, the role the scientist now plays can seriously endanger his intellectual health...
...fields open up, said Wiener, the need for scientists with the broadest possible cultural background increases because the line dividing science and other subjects gradually fades. "For example, we are recruiting into the field of the design of translating machines many young people who are grossly ignorant of the facts of language ... So long as we depend for our intellectual development on quickly trained specialists ... we shall have to depend for the thoughtfulness and understanding which make society and democracy possible on those who have barely enough intellectual background to carry on their controlled, supervised routine work, and have nothing...
...match is played, the varsity will be a slight favorite, although in the H-Y contests anything can happen. The Crimson's biggest difficulty will be in the middle singles berths, where Yale is rather strong, with captain Ed Meyer, Newell Auger, Mait Jones and Sandy Wiener all very definite threats at third through sixth singles...
...that category today. The return of Tom Freiberg after being laid off for most of the season leaves the precise doubles lineup uncertain, but it seems likely that Meyer and Schoonmaker will hold down the first position, followed by Auger and possibly Freiberg at second doubles and Jones and Wiener in the third position...
...only Yale win came at first doubles, where Jon Clark and Ed Meyer upset the top Presbyterian combine of John Brownlow and Harry Hoffman. The doubles seemed to constitute Presbyterian's greatest weakness, as the third doubles team had trouble subduing Yale's Mait Jones and Sandy Wiener...