Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...photographed the Club des Sous I'Eau in Paris. My photograph showed its president, Commandant Le Prieur, its vice president, the scientist Jean Painleve, and other members cavorting under water in diving masks, shooting off their underwater guns and wearing water lungs...
Universal Waves. Another scientist much preoccupied with the possibility of messages from civilizations outside the solar system is Harvard's Nobel Prize-winning Edward Mills Purcell, who with Harold I. Ewen was the first to detect the 21-cm. waves. If nonsolar aliens are sending messages to earth, theorizes Purcell, their first problem is to select the proper radio frequency, and their most likely choice is 21 cm., the sharpest and most universal radio waves that flash through space. Such aliens would reason that if earthlings have an electronic technology, they would know about the 21-cm. waves...
...hard-driving administrator with a sharp tongue, Silverstein moved from Cleveland to NASA's Washington headquarters in 1958, bringing with him ten Lewis Laboratory scientists. Recalls one: "We didn't really want to come to Washington. We came purely because Abe asked us to." Since then, most of Silverstein's relaxing pastimes have vanished into space: about all he has time for is taking his three children to the Washington zoo on Sunday mornings. But for Abe Silverstein, dedicated public scientist, the job is worth...
...Case For. Those who leaned toward accepting the Soviet bid-with conditions-argued that the ultimate decision should hinge less on military-scientific grounds than political-diplomatic grounds. They admitted, as one Government scientist said, that "the Russian proposal is not very attractive as it stands." But even scientists were now admitting that a "perfect" control system would be impossible. The let's-try-it group argued that the Soviets would not dare risk the grave world political consequences of being caught cheating...
...surface, maneuvers by electrically powered jets of water, can go down to 1,000 ft. In the works: an improved saucer that will reach 3,000 ft.; a tiny, two-man submarine that will stay down four days at 15,000 ft. Though he insists he is no scientist, Cousteau has the warm support of scientists around the world for his ceaseless searching of the sea. Concedes Director Roger Revelle of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who calls Cousteau the founder of undersea archaeology: "Cousteau's patron saint should be Ulysses, not Aristotle...