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When Britain's Scientist Klaus Fuchs, an inoffensive-looking man of twisted brilliance, confessed that he had betrayed U.S. atomic secrets to Russia, the FBI was left with a baffling piece of unfinished business-how to track down members of the shadowy transmission apparatus which had kept in touch with Fuchs during his tour of U.S. atomic centers and passed his stolen information back to the U.S.S.R...
Decisions of the President and Fellows on important educational policy, on all appointments for more than a year, and on the awarding of degrees also need the approval of a separate group, the 30-man Board of Overseers, before they are final. The Overseers--who at present include scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer '28, author John Mason Brown '23, and journalist John Cowles '21--are elected by the University alumni--five each year for six-year terms. In actual practice the Overseers at their monthly meetings almost invariably approve Corporation's decisions...
...dangerous mockery of Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie at the head of France's Atomic Research Commission (TIME, April 17) came to an end last week. Premier Georges Bidault announced, "with regret," the dismissal of the Red nuclear physicist. "Whatever the qualifications of this scientist," said the Premier, "his public statements and his unreserved acceptance of the [pro-Russian] resolutions . . . of the Communist Party make it impossible to maintain him in his functions of High Commissioner...
Most young people in the U.S. have a passive feeling about religion, and are confused about its place in their own lives. This is the conclusion drawn from a survey sponsored by the Young Men's Christian Association and reported this week by Social Scientist Murray G. Ross in Religious Beliefs of Youth (Association Press...
...sharp sword of schism fell last week upon the Christian Science Church. Keen-eyed Scientists found the news in a small story buried among the ads on page 2 of the Christian Science Monitor: "The Mother Church ... in Boston, Massachusetts, received from the Fourth Church of Christ Scientist, Rochester, N.Y., notice of its withdrawal as a branch of the Mother Church...