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...Chicago's young (1933) quarterly reaches boldly outside the law for such contributors as Economist Friedrich A. von Hayek and Physicist Leo Szilard. Proving that youth is no barrier to getting elders' ears, Chicago's review has been cited in at least ten recent Supreme Court decisions covering everything from prayer to pornography. Among its still-young ex-editors: Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, who served on the first edition...
...Joint Atomic Energy Committee, had read a study of radiological warfare, issued a statement suggesting that the U.S. could sow a sanitized zone of radioactive material across the Korean neck. Says he today: "It was thoroughly panned by scientific editorial writers." In any event, explains University of California Physicist Luis Alvarez, MacArthur was in error, since the half-life of radioactive cobalt is only 5.25 years, and the material could not be distributed from trucks. Says Alvarez: "You would have to have air dropped it, like leaflets, from a plane...
...would be to describe it as overdressed," he says. Despite one of the leanest budgets in the business-currently $24,000 a year-it has lived a mendicant's existence, begging office space from the University of Chicago, money from foundations, handouts from subscribers, art work from a physicist's wife, and articles from the leading scientists of the world. Its admonitory pages bristled with urgent crusades: for disarmament and against military control of the atom, for world government and against overclassification of military secrets. From the start the young magazine boasted authors whose names were international currency...
...Rodman Rockefeller, 31, Nelson's oldest son, given the Chilean Order of Merit (Dad got it in 1945) for being "the kind of private businessman whose contributions, energy and ideals are so badly needed for the right development of Latin America"; Columbia University's No-bel-Prizewinning Physicist Dr. Isidor Rabi, 65, named winner of the annual $1,000 Joseph Priestley Memorial Award for "services to mankind through physics...
Parolee & Physicist. The Ruby trial was a prime example of the problem expert witnesses pose for the jury-the often agonizing choice amateurs must make between the opposed opinions of two squads of specialists. With the use of expert testimony becoming commonplace in many kinds of cases, the battle of the experts and their rival qualifications is often decisive. An expert may be anyone from a paroled moonshiner to a nuclear physicist: what matters to the law is that he testifies about things that are peculiarly within his professional province...