Word: talents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diverting Talent. The Lincoln Laboratory, for example, has developed a foliage-penetrating radar that detects Viet Cong hiding in the jungle. The Instrumentation Laboratory has designed a multiple-warhead guidance system for the Navy's Poseidon missile. Radical students, who staged a march at "I-lab" in April, insist that a university should totally shun research that is aimed at killing people. Moderate students and professors argue that the special labs' secrecy violates the academic principle of free inquiry, and more basically, that the growth of the special labs has diverted M.I.T. talent from domestic and social problems...
Shultz's conviction that imposed agreements are often fragile and brittle closely parallels President Nixon's thinking. The Labor Secretary has a talent for translating the President's theory into policy, and that has made him one of the most powerful men in Washington. As TIME Washington Correspondent Marvin Zim reports: "If politicians gave a rookie-of-the-year award, the prize for 1969 would go to Shultz. After coming to Washington without any political experience, he has clearly become a top Cabinet officer, an adviser whose counsel is sought and whose judgment bears extra distinction simply...
...many contemporary authors still make convention do the work of invention. They are rewriting the 19th century novel without meaning to. In The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles rewrites the 19th century novel and means every word of it. But his is a resourceful and penetrating talent at work on that archaic form. The result is more truly inventive and contemporary than a whole shelf of campus comings-of-age or suburban wife-swapping sagas...
...Hardin, who captured the individual championship in each of the last two years. is gone, but Harvard will hardly miss him. Most of the time he stood distinctly above the rest of his teammates, and this fall coach Bill McCurdy has been blessed with five men of almost equal talent...
This year's varsity, though it cannot be rated a bonafide contender for the Ivy League championship, is much improved over last year's squad. The freshman team will be loaded with more talent than any Harvard freshman team before it. It appears that the energetic program started by coach. Bon Harrison, now in his second season here, is beginning to show results...