Word: conservationism
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The U.S. Army has had few tougher combat generals than James Alward Van Fleet, 69, who won three Distinguished Service Crosses, three Silver Stars and three Bronze Stars during a distinguished career that included leading an Army corps in Europe, defeating Communist guerrillas in Greece, and commanding the Eighth Army...
Key scientific developments have all been based on the principle of conservation of energy, says Jones. He believes that the organizational problems of the space age must be solved by a similar key-conservation of resources. And he cheers the Pentagon's new-found concern with fewer, multiple-purpose...
Faster Thinking. Still, the Center recognizes and studies the limitations that immaturity puts on learning. According to Switzerland's Jean Piaget, top scholar on the subject, the toddler is an egocentric who understands things only in terms of what he does about them ("A hole is to dig"). A...
Harvard students, being Harvard students, had other things on their minds last year. National magazines were wondering whether a wave of conservation or at least of political activism was sweeping college campuses, and their correspondents looked first to Harvard. Were Harvard students becoming more conservative? More politically active?
In law. Heidelberg reigned supreme throughout Germany. In philosophy, it boasted Hegel and later Karl Jaspers. In literature, it was a vibrant center of Germany's early 19th century Romantics (Brentano, Eichendorff, Holderlin). In natural sciences, it abounded with men like Bunsen and Kirchhoff, who in 1860 demonstrated spectrum...