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...Airless Wonder. As a mouse teamed up with industry's elephants, National Research has done well because President Morse, 43, is a rare combination of scientist and businessman. An M.I.T. graduate ('33) who worked for Eastman Kodak until he decided that he could do better on his own, Morse started out with the basic idea that high-vacuum (i.e., removing all the air) techniques could be useful to U.S. business. He and his staff developed machines efficient enough to suck all but a cupful of air out of an area as big as Chicago's Union Station...
...Board Chairman Paul W. Litchfield, the company's boss for 28 years, has always been a strong believer in diversification. When he arrived in Akron in 1900, as Goodyear's new plant superintendent, he was just out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the first real scientist on the young company's staff. He also had a penchant both for production and for trying unexplored fields. In those days U.S. tiremakers produced solid, iron-hard rings of rubber. Litchfield soon learned a better way. In 1902 he took Goodyear's tires to a reliability test...
Anybody, including an atomic scientist, has a right to press upon the Government his opinion of how to attain this or any other goal. From such pressures a healthy government will know how to derive nourishment for clear, strong, decisive policymaking. The struggles related in The Hydrogen Bomb took place in a Government (and in a nation) that was confused about its own strategic situation and unclear about its aims. A determined pressure group can play havoc in such a situation. To relate the story of how one such pressure group almost did, is not to set up a conflict...
...Under such conditions one might expect the scientist to be the most secure man in our society. He holds almost ultimate power-the power of life or death. But many an American scientist is ... in moral torment. He has watched his science move from theory to human holocaust...
...Again many an American scientist is troubled because he finds himself dragged willy-nilly into a partisan conflict . . . The scientist discovers that he is no longer the austere and impartial figure of popular legend and his own desires. Instead he is a partisan in a relentless battle for power . . . The scientist who is engaged in atomic research for the Government has no stomach for such power struggles-but he cannot avoid becoming involved in them ... To protect his sanity he disavows moral responsibility for the consequences of his work. But does he convince himself...