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...corps of meteorologists. There were only a few in the country, many of them hopelessly behind the times. The Government's solution was to put Rossby in charge of a monstrous, high-pressure training program. He crisscrossed the country, setting up branch units at New York University, U.C.L.A., Caltech and M.I.T. At the University of Chicago, Rossby lectured with a slight, but attractive, Swedish accent to classes of 400 students, force-feeding them with the Bjerknes doctrine...
...level Chicago conference was Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan, a tough-minded political pro. Finnegan finally gave in on the ground that the H-bomb was "a way of talking about peace"-and peace was an issue that Finnegan was distressed to see the Republicans monopolizing. The strategy settled, Caltech Geochemist Harrison Brown (who had argued against the H-bomb before the H-bomb was ever developed) flew into Chicago to give technical advice on a 30-minute Stevenson television speech...
...Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (who had previously said he did not believe the U.S. should call off its tests). Also there was Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington (he quickly changed the subject to the need for greater national defense). Public backing for Stevenson came from ten Caltech scientists (including Speech Adviser Harrison Brown). They were promptly rebuked by Caltech President Lee DuBridge for their "partisan stand." Sixty-two scientists from the Atomic Energy Commission's Brookhaven Laboratory edged in with a notation that the dangers of Strontium 90 were "a valid subject for further discussion and study...
Those who needed no financial help got only the honor of being National Merit Scholars. Others got small grants of $100, still others were marked down for as much as $2,100 a year. N.M.S. also gave to the colleges the students picked (the favorites: Harvard, M.I.T., Caltech and Cornell) an amount, up to $750. equal to each college's tuition. But the more important boon to U.S. higher education lies in the young talent it has spotlighted, much of which it might never have seen. Among the 1956 winners...
President Lee A. DuBridge of Caltech is no man to deny that the U.S. needs to turn out many more scientists and engineers. But, he warned last week, that does not mean that the country should be so "hysterical over reports that the Russians are ahead of us." Said DuBridge: "It is true that in Russia more men and women received degrees in science and engineering than in the U.S. So what? Maybe that is because in the past 100 years they have so neglected their technical strength that they must now exert strenuous efforts to build...