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...When Physicist Richard S. Morse founded his National Research Corp. in Cambridge, Mass. 15 years ago, he started out with two basic ideas. On the scientific side he wanted to develop new products and processes and then get help from bigger companies to put them into production. On the financial side he believed that investors were more interested in growth industries and capital gains than a quick cash return; instead of paying dividends, his company would plow back its earnings into new projects that would pay off investors in capital gains as they grew. Both ideas have been so successful...
...fanciful incidents. I fell into a trap, which in part had been laid by my own glib tongue." The facts, he said, were these: "I was never an OSS agent. I never participated in any secret, behind-the-lines mission ... I never captured Otto Hahn or any other German physicist ... I wish before my Heavenly Father that I might undo this wrong." Stringfellow offered to withdraw from the election if the party asked...
Died. Theodore Lyman, 79, retired Harvard physicist and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Physical Society; in Cambridge, Mass. A pioneer in the investigation of ultraviolet radiation, tall, aloof Bachelor Lyman discovered the "Lyman series" of wave lengths, which contributed fundamentally to the development of atomic theory...
Laura Fermi's book. Atoms in the Family (University of Chicago Press; $4) starts with a hike outside Rome in 1924, when she met "a short-legged young man . . . with rounded shoulders and neck craned forward." Fermi was only 22, but already a brilliant physicist. Laura, 16, considered him "pretty...
...faculty relationships in many of Cornell's undergraduate divisions tend to be on the remote side. Cornell has its full quota of outstanding faculty members, with reputations extending far beyond the college community, like government professor Robert E. Cushman, a leading authority in the field of civil rights, famed physicist Hans Bethe, and philosopher Max Black. Although many of these men may give the large introductory courses and try to make themselves accessible to students, the average student is likely to hold them too much in awe, especially in his early years, to approach them readily...