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...competence. Present methods of challenging incompetence are certainly not ideal, but in the present state of society it seems difficult to do without some formal evaluation of the individual, especially if he is to set himself up as an expert or professional. Having marks may encourage the prestige bug, but it does not prevent creative thinking. i.e. contends that passing an exam requires only one night of concentrated study. If this is true, a considerable section of the year is left for intellectual dalliance. If it is true that the intellectual is unable to retain his perspective in the face...
Raising Hell. A Russian immigrant who came to America with his parents at the age of 1 i½, Cryptanalyst Friedman developed an early interest in ciphers. Like many another schoolboy, he caught the bug by reading Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug. But he put his new-found knowledge to no nobler use than that of exchanging cryptic love notes with a winsome classmate. After trying his hand in an ironworks after graduation from high school, young Friedman at last decided to work his way through agricultural college and become a farmer. Graduating close...
...might well have asked the question of a subject more general than a bug in a new radio telescope--Harvard astronomy as a whole. For after a distinguished history going back more than a century, in January, 1953, the Observatory was directed to give up one of its stations, the Bloemfontein, South Africa location. The Corporation felt at the time that the Observatory had over-extended itself...
...Kremlin's haste to rewrite Soviet history, another seamy little sequence in the Communist past turned up like a bug under a mattress: a belated charge that Stalin practiced and tolerated antiSemitism. Khrushchev, in his virtuoso weep session, had told party leaders about Stalin's fanatical hatred of Jews in his last days, but so far no public mention had been made of the purge of Jewish intellectuals in the '30s, and the later postwar purge, coinciding with the establishment of Israel, and supposedly due to fear of Zionist influence in Russia and the satellite states...
...outgrowth of the conviction last December of John G. Broady, Manhattan lawyer and private eye (TIME, Dec. 19), on wiretapping charges. Among Broady's clients: a Wildenstein Vice President, Emmanuel J. Rousuck, 55. In court testimony, Rousuck -as an individual-admitted hiring Wiretapper Broady to put a bug on the telephone of Art Dealer Rudolph Heinemann, who frequently works with Knoedler's in top-drawer transactions. For a payment of $125-$!50 a week, testified Rousuck, he received recordings of Heirtemann's telephone calls over a period of some six months. But, he added, the wiretap service...