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...Defense Department in both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, who says modestly that he thinks that a big industrialist' should get the job; 3) air-and missile-minded Donald A. Quarles, onetime Bell Laboratories executive, later Secretary of the Air Force, now Deputy Secretary of Defense, a scientist and methodical thinker who was considered a shoo-in until vague but potent word got around that the President had misgivings that Quarles had not yet developed a big-picture mind -not enough forest, too many trees...
...Congressmen examined researchers on both sides of the smoking-and-lung-cancer controversy, they won from Scientist Clarence Cook Little of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee the surprising admission that he knew nothing about filters one way or the other. He had. he confessed, never received any reports on filters from the industry which pays his salary, had never been shown filter experiments on trips to cigarette factories...
...concrete shield of the cyclotron swung open, and a masked scientist dashed wildly down a 100-yard corridor in a race. His opponents: a set of disintegrating atoms. Though it was quite unlike the procedure normally associated with the grave and careful laboratories of science, the race was crucial to the performance of that increasingly difficult feat-the identification of a new element. The story of how the 100-yard dash helped a team of international scientists create element 102 is told in SCIENCE, Chemists...
...civilian counsel Ray H. Jenkins (of Army-McCarthy fame) produced, one by one, a galaxy of star witnesses including the creator of Hitler's V2, Wernher von Braun, to deliver what he called "mitigating" evidence. "Is not Nickerson bitterly partisan?" he asked one witness, a German research scientist. "Yes-in favor of the Army," said the scientist...
...appeal trial brought a deluge of protests and pleas for clemency from world liberals and Marxists, including British Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Scientist Julian Huxley, Peru's President Manuel Prado, Hungarian Writer Paul Igno-tus, French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as from such Communists as Artist Pablo Picasso and Poet Louis Aragon (who was later outraged to learn that the capitalist press knew of his appeal). Seemingly impressed, the Kadar regime said last week that, "pending re-examination of the case," it had "suspended" the death sentences of Intellectuals Obersovszky and Gali. But three days later...