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President Henry Schmitz of the University of Washington is learning that the academic world has its own techniques of cold, cold war. Six weeks ago he vetoed a series of science lectures at Washington by Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Since then, both Schmitz and Washington have been getting the academic deep freeze...
...believes that birthdays are for children, Physicist Albert Einstein seemed slightly startled when friends reminded him that he would turn 76 this week. Even more than birthdays, however, Dr. Einstein deplores birthday interviews. But he was duly goaded into a typical bit of self-depreciation. "The world is no longer interested in me," said he at his office in Princeton's brain-crammed Institute for Advanced Study. "I do not consider myself important any more. First, I was nobody, and then I became famous and people developed illusions of greatness about me that were untrue. Now I plan...
Died. Rear Admiral William Reynolds Purnell, U.S.N. (ret.), 68, veteran Navy cruiser and battleship skipper between world wars, member (with Physicist Vannevar Bush, Harvard President James B. Conant, Army Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer) of the nation's top policy panel on military use of atomic weapons during the three wartime years before Hiroshima; of pneumonia; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...wife of a Vermont senator. Such testimonials entice buyers: admen don't spend funds for nothing. Just why praise from this clump of wives should be the gospel of the casual dustcloth-needing shopper I do not know. Nor do I know why the testimonial of a physicist, even a Nobel Prize physicist, on juridical subjects deserves news column space. The comparison may seem ludicrous, but accepting one is as sensible as accepting the other. Really, the housewives are better qualified to make a pragmatic judgement on household paraphernalia than the physicist a judgement on a legal matter, seeing that...
...Western scientists who have rustled into the folds of the Iron Curtain, few vanished more completely than Italian-born Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. In late 1950 Pontecorvo, his head and perhaps his luggage crammed with hydrogen-bomb secrets gleaned from his U.S., Canadian and British research, landed in Helsinki without a Finnish visa. He cheerfully surrendered his passport, was not impolitely detained. Within an hour, Pontecorvo, his Swedish-born wife and their three children dropped out of sight. But passengers on the airline bus which had hauled the Pontecorvo family into the Finnish capital recalled that, as the bus entered...