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...terrifying facts about atomic bombs-old-style and new-is that they can be delivered by stealth, set off without possibility of defense against them. Testifying before a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee last week, Nobel Prizewinning Atomic Scientist Harold C. Urey described how the Russians might use the atomic bomb-even without setting it off-to bend the U.S. or its allies to its purposes...
...testimony, Chief Magistrate Sir Lawrence Dunne remanded Fuchs to stand trial for treason at the Feb. 28 Old Bailey criminal sessions. The hearing at Bow Street had taken just two hours. The proceedings over, Fuchs walked out of the courtroom, back to his cell, looking like a harmless, nondescript scientist whom one might see in any laboratory. Despite his harmless look, despite repentance of a sort, Dr. Klaus Fuchs still bore Communism's indelible brand-NASH...
Popper defined science as "a friendly rivalry where each scientist tries to prove the other wrong . . . it consists in having ideas--queer, bold, inventive--rather than in careful observation...
...good failure in science is always respectable," commented Popper. "The scientist who has taken the bold leap and has been proven wrong is no failure in the ordinary sense of the word...
Short of Ideal. Scientist Murdock's challenge got a quick answer. The Rev. William J. Gibbons, of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, rose to the defense of premarital chastity. "Man," said Jesuit Gibbons, "is a moral being . . . Man's reason, properly used, can still tell him what ought to be, even if his concrete behavior falls short of the ideal . . . Sex, like any other tendency in man, must be regulated by reason. Man, not being governed by the detailed instincts of lesser animals, would find his tendencies running wild were he not to regulate them by reason...