Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Roman Candle (by Sidney Sheldon), which closed at week's end, was a farce about an Army scientist pursued by a girl with extrasensory perception. The pursuit took place in back-to-back Washington apartments, with time out for launching missiles in Alaska and for unloosing endless gags about the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, horse racing, Eisenhower golf, lovemaking, martini-making and money...
Ezra Cornell of suburban Bloomfield, N.J. does well at arithmetic and thinks he may become a scientist. Whatever he becomes, there is little doubt where he wants to go to college-Cornell University. For one thing, Ezra is the namesake and great-great-great grandson of the man who founded Cornell in 1865. For another, Ezra last week learned officially that he will be a life trustee of the university. He is eleven and a sixth-grader...
...represented by thinning hair and thickening wife-to one that is gloriously real. This putative planet, circumnavigated by Author Jenkins' sea thriller, is the realm of the dead mariner's cryptic map, the deathbed revelation cut off in mid-gargle, the implacable enemy, and the beautiful girl scientist who carries on the quest that killed her father. The story's hero has the sort of face that is weathered by wind, war, and lately by the floodlights of cigarette-ad photographers. In World War II, Geoffrey Peace was a much-decorated submarine commander, but after a mysterious...
Before the year ends, the German-born space scientist added, the Soviets may well have put a man into orbit around the earth and dropped a package of live instruments on the moon...
...play for the smaller catch, the Club's secretary, Peter J. Enderlin '61 is investigating an electronic method in which fish are attracted by electrical impulse. Discovered by a German scientist named Kreutzer, to whom Enderlin has written for advice, the system utilizes the finding that fish emit and are attracted by characteristic signals, similar to bird calls. The Club hopes to land tuna by this method...