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...wrote in the memento book a quotation in Greek from Pindar's Third Pythian Ode: "Dear Soul, do not pursue with too much zeal immortal life, but first exhaust the practical mechanics of living." Next day, at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin North in Wisconsin, the controversial architect took one look at Oppenheimer's inscription, snorted and wrote: "Take the science of life in your stride as the mechanics of the affair. Art and religion are the essences of being. Cultivate them - they are the payoff...
...this realization which led to the fundamental change in Cambridge professional drama over the past year. Largely through the efforts of Hunt, a Boston architect, the group reorganized on the principle of community responsibility. It decided that many people did in fact want to see classical plays. Moreover, it decided that people wanted to see these productions not just for one summer, but every summer...
Other possibilities are: C. Douglas Dillon '31, First Marshal of his 25th year class and Ambassador to France; architect Frank Lloyd Wright; author Chiang Yee, who will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa address; Barnaby C. Keeney, new president of Brown; Henry Ford II; Edward R. Murrow; attorney Joseph N. Welch; Sinclair Weeks '14 will also be in town; retired military figure Mathew W. Ridgway; and around Harvard retiring Louis C. Bierweiler deserves consideration...
Squalls in the Pacific, however, are minor arguments against H-bomb tests to the continuing storms of scientific controversy. As early as 1947, Edward Teller, principle architect of the H-bomb, declared that "The effects of an atomic war fought with greatly perfected weapons. . . .will endanger the survival of man." Last summer two groups of Nobel Prize-winning scientists condemned continued H-bomb tests; the one headed by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell noted the dangers of radioactive dust clouds and "slow torture of disease and disintegration" in future generations...
...room hotels are going up near San Juan to help the 300-room, 99%-occupied Caribe Hilton handle the expected $75 million-a-year tourist traffic. Laurance Rockefeller is putting $1,000,-ooo into a 72-room luxury hotel with an 18-hole golf course designed by famed Golf Architect Robert Trent Jones. And all over the island are the new factories...