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...first lecture, "Science and Technology in the Last Decade" Conant stresses the change in public opinion towards the "long-haired scientist," once disdained and now accepted in industry and government. It is no longer the inventor alone who holds the public's favor. The theorist who is attempting to "lower the degree of empiricism" in the material world is now respected...
...these planets are suitable for life. Some are too hot; others are too cold, or otherwise inhospitable. But Scientist Urey believes that many are seedbeds for the sprouting of life...
...calves from the great herds which still roam the noxious swamps around Lake Chad, in North Central Africa. He lived for four years within scent of elephants -"I became an elephant myself." In Komoonl (Berberi dialect for elephant) he tells what it was like. Author Oberjohann is no scientist; some of his conclusions about the big animals will strain the faith of stay-at-homes. But he has written one of the most absorbing adventure stories in many a week...
...University of Denver science class that at least three saucers, carrying crews of tiny (30-inch) men, had landed in the U.S., that the Air Force had captured the crews and was hushing up the big story. Later, to support his tale, he cited "evidence" given by a mysterious scientist whom he called "Dr. Gee." The story told by Newton, a friend of Variety Columnist Frank Scully, got Scully started on his bestseller Behind the Flying Saucers (TIME, Sept. 25, 1950) which devoted a great deal of space to Newton's and Dr. Gee's "evidence...
...reason why such things happen, says the Bulletin, is that the McCarran Act makes consular officers the judges of scientific visitors. The consuls realize their inability to estimate a scientist's politics, but they also realize that a no is safer than a yes. If they let the wrong man in, he may be publicly denounced for some fleeting contact with Communism 20 or 30 years ago. Then the consul's career might be in danger. Thus, it is prudent to delay or refuse the visa...