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...said Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to an interviewer in 1948. Last week Oppenheimer's life-not merely the pros & cons of the security risk charges against him, but the whole development of his mind and character-became a matter of interest, more than ever before, to those who shared with him an uneasy habitation of the planet...
Robert Oppenheimer continued his studies in the U.S. and abroad. When he returned from Europe in 1929, already recognized as a physicist of great promise, he accepted concurrent appointments at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the University of California in Berkeley. He knew he did not want to live in New York City, holding it to be not typically American. He loved the West, its distances and its solitudes. He loved to ride horseback in the desert...
...Administration has demonstrated that the best way to make policy is to make it off the cuff. Vice President Nixon, speaking to a meeting of newspaper editors, first advocated the use of American troops in Indo-China, then said that on the basis of existing evidence, he considered physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer "a loyal American." Only a short time before, Secretary of Defense Wilson announced, in effect, that even if Oppenheimer's name were cleared, he still should not be allowed back in Government employ...
...much as any other one man. Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who bossed the Los Alamos project during World War II, created the atomic bomb. For the past several months, Oppenheimer has been the nucleus of a top-secret political Abomb. This week the New York Times -on information provided by Oppenheimer himself-broke the news. On Dec. 23, 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission suspended J. Robert Oppenheimer as a security risk...
Another professor, on sabbatical leave at the Institute for Advanced Study, of which Oppenheimer is director, called the investigation of the physicist "insane and crazy." Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, said last night that "the charges were nothing but what has been on the record for years and I'm positive the case will be cancelled in a few days...