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...only reflected from abroad; it was all around him. He saw it in new highways and new bridges; in factories, schools and hospitals springing up everywhere; in the dust-streaked tractors clanking through the spring plowing. He read of it in the plans for a 6-billion-electron-volt atom-smasher at the University of California (see SCIENCE). He heard it in the farmer's talk of a bumper wheat crop-the fifth bumper crop in a miraculous...
Americans were beginning to understand what it meant to say: "I am an American." It meant more than owning the atom bomb, or having steak for dinner, or the inalienable right to yell "Kill the ump." It had begun to mean: "I am a citizen of a privileged and therefore obligated nation. I am no longer the prodigal son of Europe. I am my brother's keeper. But only free men can be my brothers...
...world's biggest cyclotron will be built on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Last week the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Chairman David E. Lilienthal, seconded happily by U. of C.'s Ernest O. Lawrence, announced that the Government will finance a vast machine (no feet in diameter) to dwarf all present atom-smashers. It will weigh more than 10,000 tons, cost $9 million...
Government jobs don't look very attractive these days to U.S. scientists. The widely publicized attack by the House Un-American Activities Committee on Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the National Bureau of Standards (TIME, March 15), has helped scare other valuable scientists away. Last week the Atomic Scientists of Chicago, Inc. (all of whose members worked on the atom bomb project in wartime) offered some proof of how the rank & file of science feels about Government service...
...united the German states) or it may emerge from a compromise between the free enterprise of Western Christendom (the U.S.) and the totalitarian economy of the Byzantine orthodoxy (the U.S.S.R.). Only one thing can now prevent one world, says Toynbee: the destruction of all our major civilizations by the atom bomb...