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...Constitution Avenue is HQ of the AEC, headed by Gordon Dean, a 46-year-old lawyer (see box). No scientist, Dean was teaching law and running his 44-acre fruit ranch in California in 1949 when he was called to serve as a member of the commission under David Lilienthal, its first chairman...
...scientists still work under some special handicaps, heaviest of which is the fact that they cannot freely publish their results. Publication is meat & drink to a scientist; it is the way he normally communicates with his colleagues, the way he wins professional recognition. With this cut off, he must depend on the recognition of a very limited group and on the approval of his administrative bosses of the AEC, most of whom are not scientists. Laboratory morale is good today, but some of the leading U.S. men of science worry about the future, when the AEC may grow...
...Smyth is married, has no children. He looks, acts and talks like a stage scientist sympathetically portrayed. In the AEC, he specializes on scientific matters and the problems of the great laboratories...
Guatemalan doctors liked Salvatore Lanza at first. A slender, high-strung Italian in his middle 30s, he was loaded with Old World charm. From his voluble talk, it appeared that he was a devoted scientist and surgeon, educated at European universities. About his specialty, plastic surgery, he seemed to know all there was to know. Since plastic surgery is a virgin field in Guatemala, several doctors gratefully accepted his services as a consultant...
Most Western European countries, and Yugoslavia, will contribute. Britain has offered the use of her new Liverpool synchrocyclotron. Denmark will open the facilities of Copenhagen University. The U.S. has also offered its support. "But no one," said a UNESCO scientist, "considered it worthwhile to make inquiries in the Soviet Union...