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...work at the University of California's radiation laboratories, the agents reported that he was cozying up after hours to Steve Nelson, a known Communist leader. But it was not until 1949 that the House Un-American Activities Committee identified Scientist X as a black-haired young physicist named Dr. Joseph W. Weinberg, and flatly accused him of passing wartime atomic secrets to Nelson...
Making the charges stick, however, was not so easy. The 36-year-old physicist looked worried when his trial began, but as it wore on in a Washington federal court last week, his spirits rose. The Government dropped one charge against him, the court threw out another. Only the first count remained at the trial's conclusion...
...most remarkable thing about this remarkable progress in everything from toasters to atomic energy is that it is bossed by a man who is neither physicist, engineer nor production expert. Price is still so innocent of mechanical lore that friends kid him about the time his car stalled in Pittsburgh's rush-hour traffic. Mrs. Price had to lift the hood and get it started, because Price didn't know how to work the jammed automatic choke. But what unscientific President Price demonstrates is that management is a science of its own, and that, in a mass-production...
...year old physicist also revealed that he had discussed the entire matter with "the Sutherland advisory group." "They did not act as my lawyers, but merely gave me some advice. My lawyer was Joseph Forer of Washington...
Then stepped forward Robert Howgrave-Graham, 72, a retired engineer and physicist and Assistant Keeper of Muniments of Westminster Abbey. Restoring ancient figures is Howgrave-Graham's hobby. Since his apprenticeship in the '20s, when a clock jack (a clock-striking figure) in Southwold Church hit him on the head with its hammer, he has developed great skill. Yes, said Howgrave-Graham, he could refurbish the figures...