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...accordance with these beliefs, he has set up a $1,000,000 fellowship program to give young scholars in the humanities a chance they rarely get today. For the university, he has picked his appointments well (among them: Novelist Robert Penn Warren, Chemist John G. Kirkwood, Political Scientist James W. Fesler). He has even reached down to the secondary schools, which he regards as the weakest link in the educational chain. His M.A. for teachers is an attempt to give schoolmen courses-not just in pedagogy, of which they often have too much, but also in the stuff and substance...
...Argentine government made a cagily indirect answer last week to reports that Juan Perón had arrested Ronald Richter, his "atomic scientist" (TIME, May 28). Newspapers announced that Professor Richter and his laboratory associates would observe a national holiday by working 24 hours straight...
...Bakker in Argentina to run a check on Dr. Richter? That was what Netherlanders surmised. Their theory: suspicious of Richter, but leary of getting involved with atomic experts from the U.S., Britain or Canada, Perón asked Prince Bernhard for a qualified Dutch scientist to audit Richter's books...
...Government got some good news last week. Dr. Henry DeWolf Smyth, 53, top atomic scientist, author of the famed Smyth Report on atomic energy and onetime chairman of the Department of Physics at Princeton, announced that he is willing to serve a new five-year term as Atomic Energy Commissioner. Despite the irksome demands of congressional committees and the often overrigid security rules which had long since driven a whole parade of top scientists out of the AEC, Commissioner Smyth, after two years in the job, thought he had a patriotic duty to stick it out. Said he: "Developments during...
...behavior of matter under stress may help the scientist in understanding the nature of the earth's crust...