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...Homi Jehangir Bhabha, 43, is a handsome, stocky physicist from Bombay, India. He speaks precise English with a Cambridge accent, and is an accomplished painter and violinist. At 31 he became a fellow of the Britain's Royal Society, and he is now the chairman of India's Atomic Energy Comission. In new York last week week, Dr Bhabha explained how India intends to lift itself by its atomic bootstraps...
...important asset, Physicist Bhabha believes, is India's tradition of learning, "Those Brahmans who sit on their bottoms all day," he says, "are not just siting. They are thinking, and they have been doing it for thousands of years. When the young ones turn their thinking to physics, they quickly get rather good...
...these accomplishments, Kimpton realizes that the University of Chicago has lost much of the experimental glamour of the Hutchins era. Nor has he been able to replace such men as Physicist Enrico Fermi, who died last November, Psychologist Louis Thurstone and Sociologist Ernest Burgess, who retired, or Chemist Harrison Brown, Geologist F. J. Pettijohn and Physiologist Ralph Gerard, all of whom have gone elsewhere. Will Chicago ever again become as exciting a place as it used to be? The danger is, says Kimpton, "that you get so used to thinking in terms of retrenchment that you lose any imaginative flair...
...largely stressed the second half of its program. It flatters itself that it has had considerable success in this phase of improving the British breed, e.g., passage of a 1913 law prohibiting marriage for mental defectives, increased use of contraceptives by slum-dwelling Britons. Last week in London, Cambridge Physicist Sir Charles Galton Darwin, 67, the society's leader and one of its impressive testimonials (as the fit, surviving grandson of Charles Darwin, cousin of pioneer Eugenicist Sir Francis Galton), decided that the time had come to increase the quantity of England's quality...
Figuring out which families to encourage, confessed Physicist Darwin, is a discouraging problem. "The breed of race horses has been improved indeed to a remarkable degree . . . We would like to do the same for humanity, but it is a very difficult business deciding what human beings have won the race of life, whereas it is fairly easy to see which people can be classified in ending last." The society's answer: a hand-picked cross section of England's most promising schoolchildren, aged 8 to 13, who are endowed with exceptional scholastic ability, good fellowship and fondness...