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Perhaps the book's most interesting and significant part concerns what Hero Eliot likes best-his administrative work in a hush-hush atomic-energy project buzzing with top-drawer office politics. The anatomy of power excites Author Snow (himself a sometime physicist and civil servant) in the same way that the very rich fascinated Scott Fitzgerald, and he is at his best in scenes in which two or three top civil servants measure out other men's job futures in judicious mumbles. On this power ladder, Eliot represents the "new men," the non-U's in Nancy...
...With other members of the class of 1960, twelve-year-old Fred Safier of Berkeley, Calif. registered for his freshman year at Harvard. He wants to be a nuclear physicist, has already taught chemistry at the Drew School in San Francisco. Other noted Harvard prodigies: William James Sidis, who entered as an eleven-year-old at the turn of the century and startled the country with his mathematical prowess; A. A. Berle Jr., later assistant secretary of state, who went to Harvard...
Died. Archibald Montgomery Low, 68. whimsical, wide-ranging British physicist, rocket expert, inventor and author, who in 1914 demonstrated a primitive form of television, three years later designed the first guided missile, went on to invent a device to photograph sound, a system of radio torpedo control, a drop-proof cigarette ash and a golf putter that lit up when swung correctly, turned out some 30 books of history, science prophecy, weapons development and scientific theory; of a lung ailment; in London...
Some skeptical scientists have wondered if Vanguard would ever get off the ground. Navy specialists are sure the man-made moon will rise as planned. Says Physicist John P. Hagen. the Navy's director of Project Vanguard: "It is fair to say that at the moment we see no problem we cannot solve as scheduled...
...many scientists have wondered if all nature is as balanced between matter and antimatter as the atom is between positive and negative charges. If so, where are all the antiprotons to balance the protons that help make up the known universe? Writing in Science, Dr. Maurice Goldhaber, 45, senior physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, suggests a startling theory. Could it be, asks Scientist Goldhaber, that the missing antiprotons form a whole separate universe of antimatter...