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...Charles Erwin Wilson will retire, Washington pundits speculate on who will succeed him. Last week a logical candidate moved closer to the job. Into the second-in-command post of Deputy Secretary went slight (5 ft. 9 in., 140 Ibs.), mild-mannered Donald A. Quarles, 62. In 1955 Industrial Scientist Quarles (Western Electric, Bell Labs) succeeded the late Harold Talbott as Air Force Secretary, impressed Wilson and Washington by quietly, capably directing a crack Air Force. At Defense, Quarles succeeds Reuben Robertson Jr., who is leaving after two years to return to private industry (Champion Paper & Fibre...
With the right kind of clearance to a U.S. missile base, the visitor will find there, maneuvering amid weird lunar landscapes and weirder towers, blockhouses and cables, perhaps an ebullient scientist in an aloha shirt, or a fresh-faced lieutenant from M.I.T. handling millions of dollars worth of rocketry, or a gentle German in tweeds who helped Hitler build his V2, or even a space-fiction writer, intense and bespectacled, nosing about the U.S. military establishment for ideas. These are tomorrow...
...sort of put it on the back burner." But interest in missiles was picking up, and one of the reasons was Schriever's visionary enthusiasm. Everywhere he debated and discoursed upon the values and virtues of missiles, missiles, missiles with such fervor that, according to one friendly scientist, "they thought Ben was insane...
...order for even so formidable a talent as Boyer's, considering the staggering handicaps of the script. In his 90-minute TV adaptation of the Robert E. Sherwood play, Radio Writer Morton (The Eternal Light] Wishengrad shed little light on the character of the Nobel Prizewinning medical scientist who has a hard time realizing that "intelligence is impotent to cope with the brute of reality." The reality in this version of the oft-revised play was the revolt of fellow Hungarians. Until his final hour, the pacifist-minded doctor could see little purpose in getting involved, though...
...scientist with one of the strongest claims to being Father of the Atom, Denmark's gentle-spoken Niels Bohr, 71, whose pioneering plunge into the heart of his subject won him a Nobel Prize...