Word: mendelsohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States must give up backing the military government of South Vietnam," Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of History of Science, said yesterday on his return from a fourweek tour of the area...
...recent Viet Cong attacks had trapped Mendelsohn in Saigon for the last ten days. Although "never in personal danger" while there, Mendelsohn said that he did "hear gunfire at all times of the day and woke up two or three times a night to the sound of explosions...
...Vietnam as part of a planned three-week tour of Southeast Asia by the American Friends Service Committee. At his Boston press conference yesterday, Mendelsohn said that he went there "to investigate the possibilities for political change...
Like cost-sharing, which, as the name implies, is a process whereby the University foots part of the bill on government-sponsored research, effort-reporting is "borne out of the bookkeeper's mentality," Mendelsohn said. The two methods are not the way, he argued, that the inevitable responsibility to a government authority by scientists should be built into the system...
...Vietnam is poisoning the atmosphere," Mendelsohn said. "It not only skews the directions in which government money goes, but, even more important, it also has created a tremendous distrust among scientists receiving grants from the government. They are now much more touchy about government supervision than they used...