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...Weisskopf believes that the growing isolation of U.S. scientists is serious. "The development of science is based on cross-fertilization of ideas and informal discussion between scientists. The reading of manuscripts and papers is of very little help. The main ideas are transmitted by personal contact . . . For each scientist who passes up an invitation to visit the United States, scientific exchange is lost, to the unqualified and complete disadvantage of the Western world...
...blast upset plans for the formal test shot, which will be witnessed by the AEC, the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, and Dr. Edward Teller, the scientist principally responsible for the thermonuclear weapon. While scientists feverishly recalculated their data and tried to explain the unexpected force of the big blast, the formal test was postponed a few days. That test, in which a thermonuclear device will be dropped from the bays of a B-36 on the shrouds of a huge parachute (to give the plane time to get out of the way), is expected to duplicate the March...
What can be done? Scientist Brown is not confident that anything can be done, but he insists that population control is the first and essential measure; only by cutting their birth rates drastically can the crowded agricultural countries hope to enjoy the benefits of industrialization. Dr. Brown has little hope that this will be done in time or in many places...
...chief barrier to population control, in Scientist Brown's view, is the Roman Catholic Church and its doctrines against contraception. This attitude, he says, "is all the more interesting in view of the fact that it is the children who suffer most . . . When I walk through such regions, where birth rates are at a biological maximum, and I see dirt-encrusted, malnourished, disease-ridden children, I know that this is not the sort of world advocated by the One who said: 'Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom...
...first man ever to ride a guided missile through the wide open spaces beyond the earth's atmosphere. The heroine (Martha Hyer) is a "space-medicine girl" who "dreams of flying almost every night." The rocket man is told by his double-dome dad (Herbert Marshall), a rocket scientist, to go and catch a meteorite. He does this, 80 miles above the earth, with the help of the most startling invention since the Sky Hook-the "Meteor Scoop." Details are not disclosed (presumably they are not yet known to the Russians), but the principle is evident: the rocket...