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...goodies as live chinchillas and gold mines in Montana. Bride and Groom has supervised the weddings of some 2,500 couples to whom about 1,000 children have been born. The happy couples have included a Douglas Aircraft executive, two Medal of Honor winners, All-America athletes, an atom physicist, Phi Beta Kappas, a TV producer and Jinx Falkenburg's brother. To each of them went about $2,500 worth of loot. "We were passing out mink coats and deep freezers long before politicians ever thought of it," boasts M.C. Robert Paige...
Died. Ward Vinton Evans, 74, chemistry professor emeritus at Chicago's Jesuit Loyola University, and dissenting member of the three-man board that declared Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer a security risk in 1954; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Lancaster, Pa. The majority felt that Oppenheimer showed a "susceptibility to influence" and a "serious disregard" of U.S. security requirements that raised reasonable doubt, not of his loyalty, but of his judgment. Scientist Evans countered, in a two-page minority report, that the atomic scientist's judgment, while sometimes bad, was better than in 1947 when a Truman loyalty board...
...materials were certainly simple enough-a piece of baling wire, a razor blade, some copper foil. But, explained a distinguished M.I.T. physicist one day last week, they were just about all that any schoolboy would need to build himself a device that could measure the amount of silver deposited in electroplating. In another room in M.I.T.'s sprawling Building 2, a colleague toyed with a tray of marbles to demonstrate molecular action. Near by, another scientist was making a telescope out of cheap lenses, curtain rings, a cardboard cylinder, and some pieces of hose from a truck radiator...
...country of its size, Hungary has an extraordinary record for providing the U.S. with first-rank scientist immigrants. Leo Szilard (key atom-bomb physicist), Edward Teller ("Father of the H-bomb") and the late great Mathematician John von Neumann (an Atomic Energy commissioner) were all Hungarian-born. So when refugees began streaming out of rebellious Hungary last year, the National Academy of Sciences set up an office at Camp Kilmer, N.J. and sent an expeditionary force to Austria to help educated Hungarians find jobs...
...more than 10,000 scientists backed by something like $500 million will give the earth a long, complex, intent going-over. The IGY, which runs from 7:00 p.m. E.S.T. June 30, 1957 through Dec. 31, 1958, was originally -the idea of an informal group of scientists led by Physicist Lloyd V. Berkner, who is head of the group of Eastern universities that runs. Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1953 the International Council of Scientific Unions accepted responsibility for IGY. Nation after nation offered men, observing stations, apparatus and money. Now 62 nations have joined the worldwide effort. The Dominican Republic...