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Died. Thomas D. Bourdillon, 31, British physicist and rocket expert who in 1953, with Dr. Charles Evans, climbed to within 300 feet of Mt. Everest's peak before being turned back by bad weather and lack of oxygen, three days before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey made it to the top; in a fall while climbing Ausserberg in southern Switzerland...
...truck and a cement mixer at the bottom, was uninjured but had to return her husband to the hospital for treatment of lacerations, explained: "I was driving to relieve him of any physical strain." Intermezzo. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Mary Feynman won a divorce after testifying that her physicist husband's Congo drums were the only things that could take his mind off mathematics, told the court: "He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving his car and lying in bed at night. The only thing that would distract...
Last week in Washington the House Military Operations Subcommittee tried to stop a panicky rumor (started by testimony at one of its hearings) about the "dangers" of luminous watch dials, light-switch markers, etc. It published a reassuring letter from Physicist Lauriston S. Taylor of the National Bureau of Standards...
...responsible physicist or meteorologist believes that atomic explosions have altered the world's weather. The Report of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences says: "No statistically significant changes in the weather during the first ten years of the Atomic Age have been found . . . Although it is not possible to prove that nuclear explosions have or have not influenced the weather, it is believed that such an effect is unlikely." British, German and Japanese scientists agree...
...years at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration arrived at Ohio State to usher in its era of greatest prosperity and controversy. He aroused student and faculty resentment by insisting that he screen all campus speakers, earned the censure of the American Association of University Professors by firing Physicist Byron Darling for invoking the Fifth Amendment before a House investigating committee. He made bitter enemies ("He only talks about money and buildings. He's not an educator") and loyal friends ("He has the good will of all. I don't know anybody...