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...night last week in his Bristol home, Professor Cecil Frank Powell, a Nobel-Prizewinning nuclear scientist, was packing his bags for a trip. He had been invited by the Foreign Office to lecture in West Germany on British nuclear research. His packing was interrupted by the doorbell. At the door, he was confronted by a policeman who said: "Will you please call Whitehall 7033 at once...
Perhaps his training as a chemist shaped Conant as a college president. Knowing that the scientist must be at liberty to challenge accepted theories, he considered that same freedom an essential requirement in every field of knowledge. He was not only the leading defender of academic freedom, he was its personification. He would no more fire a good teacher than keep a poor one just because his political opinions were unpopular...
...since Nunn May, under the rules of good behavior, has served his term, "it is better to release him now and see if it is possible to change him into an honest citizen than embitter him by detaining him for the full sentence. He retains his ability as a scientist, but after seven years his atomic knowledge is no longer of value...
...five children, and his father had anxious plans for each of them. Amos, the eldest, was to be a minister (he is now professor of New Testament at Chicago); Charlotte a doctor (she became a professor and poet) ; Isabel a nurse (she became a novelist); and Janet a scientist (she gave up zoology for marriage). When it came to Thornton, father Wilder had little hope: "Poor Thornton, poor Thornton," he would say, "he'll be a burden all his life...
Meeting on Morningside Heights this week, the trustees of Columbia University made short work of picking a successor to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. To be 14th president of Columbia they named Dr. Grayson L. Kirk, 49, the political scientist who has filled the job in all but name ever since Eisenhower became NATO's Supreme Commander 24 months...