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...When the physicist wants to ascertain stress, he bows to the memory of Robert Hooke*, measures all the forces involved. and from them calculates the amount of pressure or tension in inanimate matter. up to the breaking point. Doctors have no such easy time of it. Ever since Montreal's Dr. Hans Selye announced his theory of how stress causes disease through the "general adaptation syndrome" (TIME. Oct. 9, 1950), physicians have recognized that people can get serious illnesses simply from the "stress" put on the system by emotional pressures, shock, physical fatigue, or even bad eating habits...
...through the 1940s, when Pontecorvo joined an atomic-research team working in Canada and MacLean was posted to the British embassy in Washington. In 1950, MacLean, whose reputed homosexuality, increasing drunkenness and Soviet-sympathizing had nearly cost him his career, was approached by Russian agents. They sought a nuclear physicist after Britain's Klaus Fuchs had been discovered as a spy. According to World, MacLean suggested Pontecorvo. His friend, Guy Burgess arranged the details, and after a few weeks, Pontecorvo and his wife (the former Swedish mistress) went on a vacation to Sweden and disappeared. Nine months later, Burgess...
Then, last August 1953, thanks in part to the aid and knowledge of Bruno Pontecorvo, the Russians set off a superbomb explosion on the Aksu River. The Italian-born physicist and friend of MacLean was suddenly one of the most honored figures in Russia. When he added his plea to that of MacLean's, the Communists no longer denied him. Donald wrote Melinda, and soon the MacLean family was on its way to the ten-room villa they now occupy as the wife and children of a top-ranking Red bureaucrat...
...Manhattan's Blue Angel last week, the house lights dimmed and the M.C. announced the newest thing in the nightclub belt: a theoretical physicist who turns out tunes on the side. Tom Lehrer, tall, lean, 25, strode purposefully to the piano, peered into the crowd through horn-rimmed glasses, and launched into what Variety called "a comedy of terrors." He would, he said, sing an "ancient Irish ballad, written a few years ago." He turned to the keys, drummed out a melancholy accompaniment, and in a sardonic voice began to sing. Sample lyric...
...alumnus of the Atomic Energy Commission plant at Los Alamos, Lehrer has been on a brief leave from his defense job as "theoretical physicist, research mathematician, spectroscopist, or what have you" in Cambridge, Mass. Next week he is due back at his desk, where, says Lehrer, "I sit and think...