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Soviet officials were reluctant to seek much outside assistance while still trying to pretend that not much had happened. Tuesday morning at 8:10, a scientific liaison officer from the Soviet embassy in Bonn appeared, unannounced and without an appointment, at the office of the Atomforum, a nongovernment agency that represents West Germany's nuclear power industry. He asked Atomforum's Peter Haug if the Germans knew anyone who could advise his country on how to put out a graphite fire. A similar request went out the same day to the Swedish nuclear authority. The U.S. Government stepped forward...
Sergeant Joe Pena knows the way, and because of that he has been released from Leavenworth, where he was imprisoned for sleeping with an officer's wife. His assignment is to be Oppenheimer's driver and liaison with the native American population. As a well-traveled boxer and musician, Pena straddles two cultures. Oppenheimer calls him a "bebop Indian," though this is not an adequate description. But then, Los Alamos is a breeding ground of misapprehensions. Captain Augustino, the project security officer, is convinced that "Oppy" is passing information to the Soviets, while Klaus Fuchs, a real spy, fails...
...connected short stories of Another Marvelous Thing, she has once again bittersweetly doomed her lovers to live out their liaison as if it were an endless Valentine's Day. Frank is an investment banker turned consultant with a wife and two grown sons. Billy is a considerably younger economic historian with a husband who works for a think tank. But what these two do, and who they are, could hardly matter less. Frank and Billy are employees in Colwin's full-time business: love...
...first, many people who go to work at CentroPresente feel lost because there are so manypeople working there, and it can be hard tounderstand where you fit in; and that is why I'macting as a student liaison between Harvard andCentro Presente," Gordon says...
Students from Harvard have volunteered atCentro Presente in previous years, but this is thefirst year that the center has actually made aneffort to reach out to college students. InSeptember, Gordon, the Harvard-Centro liaison, hada meeting for people who responded to postersasking for bilingual students who speak Spanish...