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...that problem." The New York Daily News's Ruth Montgomery, looking demure under a big hat, asked whether his sensational statistics might not be influenced by the reluctance of "nice women" to talk, compared with "our sisters of the street." Kidded Kinsey: "Those are not terms a scientist uses...
When German-born Scientist Klaus Fuchs was sent to prison in 1950 for slipping British atomic secrets to the Russians, many of his toughest mathematical chores were taken over by chubby Boris Davison, a top scientist at Harwell. Dr. Davison got a complete security clearance, though he was born in Russia (to a British father and a Russian mother) and his mother still lives in the Soviet Union. When another top atomic scientist, Italian-born Bruno Pontecoryo, absconded to Russia with nobody-knows-how-much secret information, Dr. Davison got another checkup, and was cleared, even though it was known...
Deep Defense. A second course of action is being widely discussed, and its most articulate spokesman is Atomic Scientist Robert Oppenheimer. In the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Oppenheimer sees the U.S. and Russia approaching the position of "two scorpions in a bottle," calls for a heroic effort to construct a deep new U.S. air defense system. Some U.S. airmen sharply challenge Oppenheimer on two grounds: 1) no conceivable air defense can be complete; 2) Oppenheimer's accent on defense implies a relaxing of the U.S. strategic air arm, the only weapon the U.S. has for carrying a retaliatory...
...Kind words about natural science come from eminent churchmen at regular intervals. Kind words about religion come from eminent scientists with somewhat less regularity . . . What is the actual relationship between American Catholics and natural science?" asks University of Notre Dame Scientist Julian Pleasants in the current Commonweal. "Is it a happy marriage, a divorce, or a simple case of nonsupport...
...people still consider it highly classified. The book: Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, by Alfred C. Kinsey and the staff of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University. Its chief author calls it simply "the female volume," and writes this "♂vol.," using the scientist's universal symbol, the mirror of Venus, for the female. For the male he uses &# 9792;, the arrow of Mars...