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...Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Named an AECommissioner by Harry Truman in 1946 after serving as a deskbound rear admiral in World War II, he won a reputation for independent hardheadedness by pushing for an H-bomb program in 1949 against the combined opposition of his fellow AECommissioners and the physicists of the General Advisory Committee. Strauss won that bitter fight (with invaluable help from Physicist Edward Teller) just in time to keep the Soviet Union from gaining an H-bomb monopoly. After 1953, as Eisenhower's AEChairman, Strauss worsened his standing with liberals by arguing for continuation of nuclear tests...
...found myself daydreaming about whether I would rather have been an American or an English writer," writes English Author C.P. (for Charles Percy) Snow in the New Statesman, and uses his daydream to compare the literary climate of the two nations. Trained as a physicist, now a civil service commissioner, Sir Charles is not only one of England's best novelists (The Conscience of the Rich), but a topnotch literary critic to boot. He can feel just as comfortable enmeshed in American letters as in those of his own country, and is often invited by U.S. universities...
Arriving at Geneva's Hotel du Rhone as one of a U.S. congressional delegation to the atoms-for-peace conference (see SCIENCE), New York's Representative Ludwig Teller checked in minutes after Physicist Edward Teller-developer of the hydrogen bomb and no kin to Ludwig -checked out. Before long, people were asking the lawmaker some pretty steep questions. "Dr. Teller," someone inquired (and the title was right, too, because Congressman Teller is a J.S.D.), "how do you transfer magnetohydrodynamic motion to plasma particles without energy depreciation?" Glibly shaking off the fallout, Democrat Teller summoned counterploys learned on Capitol...
...Heavy shielding may also be unnecessary, suggested Physicist S. Fred Singer of the University of Maryland. He believes the belt starts at 250 miles beyond earth, stops at 40,000 miles, is most intense above the equator and weakest above the poles. He theorizes that it consists of protons, trapped by the earth's magnetic field, which spiral around lines of magnetic force at right angles. Thus a manned vehicle (launched near the poles) might carry a lightweight shielding ring to avoid proton concentrations, or use magnetic screening to repel them. Also possible: a satellite designed to "sweep...
Died. Ernest O. Lawrence, 57, Nobel prizewinning physicist; after surgery for ulcerative colitis; in Palo Alto, Calif. (see SCIENCE...