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Among the 100 who have been cover subjects: Lavrenty P. Beria, head of Russia's secret police; British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook; Scientist Irving Langmuir; Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin ; Pope Pius XII ; Philosopher Albert Schweitzer; Poet T. S. Eliot. Among those who have not : Indian Industrialist J. R. D. Tata; Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg; Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs; Argentine Physiologist Bernardo A. Houssay; blind Egyptian Scholar Taha Hussein...
...Santa Marta Mountains, whose 19,000-ft. snow peaks are a breathtaking sight to tourists on Caribbean cruise ships, an Austrian-born anthropologist brought news of an Indian tribe so cut off that until recently its 2,000 members thought Spanish kings still ruled Colombia. The scientist is Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 40, working with a grant from New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Indians are the Kogis, perhaps the most remarkable community of aborigines still flourishing on the American continents...
...across another pudding stone. After questioning villagers and gamekeepers of Epping Forest, they found three more. All five of the stones were in a line, which made it unlikely that they had been left by a glacier or other accident of nature. Here was a mystery to delight any scientist...
Medicine, said Sir Russell, may have to be scientific and therefore analytical, but it must also be an art. And the art of medicine, insisted Scientist Brain, must never lose sight of the fact that man is more than the sum of his parts...
...this is a challenging situation." Adams, a Harvardman ('32) and investment banker, got Raytheon into fighting trim, soon stepped on to the bridge as executive vice president. Four years ago Laurence K. Marshall, who had founded the company in 1922 with the help of M.I.T.'s famed Scientist Vannevar Bush, retired as president, and Adams took over. Through Belmont Radio Corp., a Chicago subsidiary acquired at war's end, he had already put Raytheon heavily into television, turned out 100,000 sets before Korea cut back production and made Raytheon a war baby again...