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According to Geneva's famed political scientist, Professor William Rappard, the explanation is social. Says he: "Switzerland is governed by its dominant lower middle class. It is neither an aristocratic nor a proletarian country. Now all history and all geography show that woman comes to her political rights in the drawing room and the workshop long before she does so in the kitchen." A Swiss gas-station owner in Rolle had a more personal explanation: "I have to talk to my wife too much anyway. If she had politics to talk about, I'd never...
Three months ago Dr. Klaus Emil Fuchs, 39, German-born scientist serving 14 years for giving atomic secrets to Russia, appealed to the British government to let him keep the British citizenship he acquired in 1942. Last week the London Gazette announced Fuchs's denaturalization; he presumably will be deported to Germany when he gets...
Monsanto thought that if anyone could do the job, it could be done by Executive Vice President Charles Allen Thomas, 51. A brilliant scientist (D.Sc., M.I.T. '33), Thomas had helped develop no-knock ethyl gasoline, was awarded the civilian Medal for Merit for his work as project director of the Oak Ridge A-bomb plant during World War II, is now boss of several AEC projects being carried out by Monsanto. Thomas is confident that private industry can develop atomic power more cheaply than the Government. Said he: "It will serve the additional purpose of giving the country...
...drug, like a new movie star, is nurtured with care. It is "discovered" (often by a noncommercial scientist); it wins a contract with a drug manufacturer, who usually changes its name. It gets an advance buildup in medical and drug trade journals. At last, when ready to meet the public, it is launched on its career with a splash of publicity...
...CLIFFORD FRED RASSWEILER, 51, research scientist, who became vice chairman of Johns-Manville Corp., biggest U.S. maker of asbestos insulation materials. Son of a Methodist minister, Rassweiler worked his way through the University of Denver, got his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Illinois, worked for Du Pont, went to Johns-Manville as research director in 1941, where he developed numerous new products, including the insulating pad used on bazookas to protect the firer's face from burns. As vice chairman, Rassweiler skipped right over Johns-Manville's presidency, which became vacant last week with...