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...taken Rice four years to get his successor. The trustees went out to find a scientist with the right amount of "character, reputation, experience, ability, personality and background." At last they found him: benign, highbrowed Physicist William Vermillion Houston, 46, who last year succeeded famed Robert Andrews Millikan as chairman of the California Institute of Technology's division of physics, mathematics and electrical engineering...
...debate rumbled on, Fulbright fished out the fact that the names had been rushed through the Foreign Relations Committee with hardly a moment's consideration. Had anyone considered sending a physicist? A soldier of World War II? "I am not attacking the character of these gentlemen," he explained. "[But] we assume our representatives are being sent [to London] with a purpose-not to be good fellows, not to discuss Montana or whatever Mr. Walker is familiar with . . . or the strawberry crop in Delaware...
...Vast Unknown. In Champaign, Ill., Gordon L. Griffith ran this ad: "Abomb research physicist . . . needs house. You got the bomb-do we get a house...
...test the first atomic bomb, they weren't entirely sure just what would happen. A few suspected that the nuclear chain reaction might spread from the bomb's uranium, flash around the world in the air and burn every living thing to a crisp. One enthusiastic physicist, famed Enrico Fermi, casually offered to bet his associates 10-to-1 that it would. He got no takers...
...thousands of years ago in reverently proclaiming, 'the Heavens de clare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handiwork.' " Hungarian-born Rene FtilSp-Miller, a onetime hermit on Mt. Athos who has written biographies of Pope Leo XIII, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Lenin and Gandhi, sees Physicist Millikan 's attitude as part of "a new 'renaissance,' which is about to bring back man's appreciation of the con structive wisdom and beauty of faith." To contribute to that renaissance, Author FtilSp-Miller has selected five saints (of the 25,000 generally recognized by Roman...