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...this was no less than most scientists, including Russians, expected of him. The scientific consensus is that during the early stages of space exploration, instruments will be better explorers than heavy, vulnerable humans, who require tons of supplies and equipment to keep them alive. Instruments are smaller, lighter and tougher than men. They can stand acceleration, shock, vibration, spinning, heat, cold and radiation. Best of all, they do not demand to be brought home alive. They transmit to earth all the information that they have gathered in space: then they die as streaks of fire without reproach or protest...
...University of Southern California. In 1948 he returned to Utah as a philosophy professor, became dean of the liberal arts and sciences college and later vice president. McMurrin showed particular skill in leading summer seminars among businessmen and educators at Aspen, Colo. "Inevitably," says one participant, "the consensus was in accord with McMurrin's views...
...haven't you overemphasized the point of the CEA's consensus? Indeed, broad problems, almost by definition, are usually broadly acknowledged; the differences between the goose and the swan are seen when they attempt to quickly cross the river...
Called up to Capitol Hill last week to appear before Congress' Joint Economic Committee, the Administration's top economic-policy officials reported a "consensus'' that the economy would start turning up in April. But a basic disagreement reared up in testimony on the cause and cure of unemployment...
...unlike the Soviet Union, the West wanted to strengthen, not weaken, the U.N. Since he took over the U.S. delegation three weeks ago, Stevenson has been energetically conferring with Hammarskjold, as well as with the Africans and Asians, in search of a "consensus" for a new formula that could break the long Congo stalemate. Hammarskjold wanted wider powers, enabling him to block money transfers from abroad to Congo banks and to search all incoming planes for arms.. But many sensitive African nations were wary of too much power for the U.N. For its part, the U.S. was urging Belgium...