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...note also that Dr. Hans Bethe, Professor of Physics at Cornell University, commented that I was attempting "to divert public opinion from the real issue: to get a treaty that could lead to disarmament." On the contrary, I was attempting to divert public opinion to the real issue, which is the technological progress of the U.S. For two years our advance in nuclear technology has been stopped by the moratorium on tests. Meantime the progress of the Soviet Union-so one must assume, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary-has continued unchecked and uncontrolled...
...Stanford University in 1958, one top applicant for a $2,500 Wallace E. Stegner creative writing fellowship was moody Mitchell J. Strucinski, 35, author of two poignant short stories in the Atlantic. Professor Stegner himself was much impressed. Only one thing gave him pause: Author Strucinski was in Washington State's McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, finishing a five-year term for mail theft and forgery. Stilling its doubts, Stanford took Strucinski, who came highly recommended not only by an Atlantic editor but also by the warden at McNeil. Last week, when police arrested Strucinski for the tenth time...
...Stanford's prestigious premises, Strucinski put all that behind him. He affected a pipe and married a pretty English major. He worked hard, developed a particular interest in the Stanford library. Even after finishing his fellowship last year, with warm praise from Professor Stegner, Strucinski haunted the library...
...days later, 47 library books turned up in a supermarket trash can and a county dump. Then Strucinski gave himself up at FBI headquarters, was arrested for interstate commerce in stolen documents. Last week, out on bail, he was arrested twice for burglary. Said Stanford's crestfallen Professor Stegner: "He was a talented boy. He earned his fellowship honestly." If convicted. Student Strucinski faces a fellowship of up to ten years in federal prison...
Balance of payments is the difference between the amount of foreign money spent in the United States and the amount of American money spent abroad, including expenditures for imports, foreign troops, and aid to other countries. In a letter to the New York Times, Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, maintained that there are "good prospects" for restoring balance "by normal processes of economic adjustment." He stipulated, however, that other countries reduce their restrictions on American exports and increase their lending and foreign...