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...still-aborning museum. Parents are not allowed inside Atomsville, but through television they can watch children simulate bending a beam of electrons, handle "radio active" material with mechanical hands, and run a mock reactor that will shut off when it reaches the "scram" level -just as it does at Oak Ridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: A Touch of Aristotle, A Dash of Barnum | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

Praise from Country Priests. Since leaving the Dominican order, Hermand has worked part-time as an accountant while studying for a degree in psychology. A TIME correspondent found him sitting in a small, stark, rented room that resembles a monk's cell. A few books lay on an oak table; there was an iron bed, a worn pair of slippers tucked underneath. A tall, narrow, curtainless window looked out on a garden where a summer rain pelted the leaves of a great elm. Rubbing his bald head, Hermand reminisced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Case Against Celibacy | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

ERIC H. WAYNE Royal Oak, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 21, 1964 | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

They had a key that opened the heavy, studded oak door, and another key to unlock the steel grill barrier just inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Great Jail Break | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...Oak Ridge, a team of five nuclear scientists recorded tough texts on thermodynamics for Gerald McCollum, a blind student at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and wound up feeling that they had a vested interest in his future. McCollum came through: he graduated second in his class. Now McCollum is at Brown University, and this summer he is using a translated Russian physics text in a research project financed by the National Science Foundation. His reader: Morton Hamermesh, assistant director of the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, who helped to translate the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning: The Mind's Ear | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

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