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Glashow attended the Bronx High School of Science, a public school for the scientifically gifted. He once claimed that the school made the single most important contribution to his education. He no longer holds this view, although he still calls his high school experiences "particularly significant...
...other Communist countries were taking Helsinki seriously-or acting as if they were. According to a tale that has been repeated with local variations in virtually every Communist country in Europe, a grandmother goes to the police station in Pinsk and requests permission to visit her sister in The Bronx. The policeman just shakes his head. The old lady then pulls out of her string shopping bag the tattered pages from Pravda reproducing the text of the Helsinki agreement. "It says here, young man, on page 3, section A-Contacts and Regular Meetings on the Basis of Family Ties-that...
Harold Brown has always been in a hurry. He graduated at age 15 from New York's Bronx High School of Science, finished Columbia at the head of his class by age 17, had his doctorate in physics from Columbia by 22. Two years later he was a protégé of Edward Teller, a leader in developing the hydrogen bomb. As one of Robert McNamara's "Whiz Kids" and research director of the Defense Department by the time he was 33, he was nicknamed Childe Harold. Now a mature 49, the brilliant scientist-manager was near...
Jewish and raised in The Bronx, Brown is a nonsmoker and only drinks an occasional Tom Collins. He has a close-knit family life with his wife Colene and daughters Deborah, 21, and Ellen, 20. Every morning he swims laps in his backyard pool for precisely 30 minutes. Reserved in public, Brown can be arrogant. But Pentagon officials approvingly recall that during the '60s he got along well with uniformed officers and Congressmen after overcoming their initial suspicions of him as an insufferable boy wonder...
...Rapid Robert Amdur, the Bronx Bombers rise once more...