Word: developmental
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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To succeed former M.I.T. President Karl Compton as chairman of the Defense Department's Research and Development Bureau, President Truman last week picked another M.I.T. man and longtime associate of ailing ex-Chairman Compton. His choice: 49-year-old William Webster, a vice president of the New England Electric...
More an administrator than a scientist, Nominee Webster is an old hand at controlling the explosive combination of scientists in government. A graduate of the Naval Academy (1920), he took a master's degree at M.I.T., served six years in the Naval Construction Corps before he resigned to work...
In a defense of rationalism, Popper refuted the attack that moral decadence stems from intellectualism by an affirmation that moral development has kept up with the intellectual advances of the world. Said Popper: "More men feel themselves responsible for men far away than they ever did before."
Fuchs's arrest hit Washington between the eyes. A member of the Atomic Energy Commission said: "We realized that this was one of the blackest days in the history ... of the security of this country. We are treating this as the biggest problem we ever had." In consternation, President...
This week in Stuttgart, McCloy spoke before an audience of 1,400 at the opening of a new Amerika-Haus. His speech was a milestone in the development of the U.S. attitude toward Germany. Said McCloy: