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Educator, scientist, and author, President Conant has set out to introduce the realm of science to the layman in his book, "On Understanding Science," to be published Tuesday by the Yale University Press...
...more obscure fronts, the prospect was not so bright. The Russians might get the atomic bomb (a German scientist escaped from Russia last week said they would soon have it). If equalization took place in this way, Washington would probably learn about it from Geiger counters capable of "hearing" radioactive particles thousands of miles away. When those Geigers begin to click, war will be nearer...
Turning to the recent "purge" orders of the administration, the 61 year old scientist told the overflowing Garden audience that "the suppression of a Communist Party would merely be a preliminary for the suppression of other smear-able minorities. Would the Society of Jesus be next in line, or the Democrats in Vermont, or the Republicans in Mississippi?" he asked...
...woman's voice dropped to a reverent whisper. "That's a scientist," she replied...
...Britain plagued by blizzards, floods and landslides,* the Army asked the House of Commons for a sizable budget. Heavy snow in Eire curtailed the export of shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day. In Naples, striking bakers raided the University library and burned books. In Moscow, Atomic Scientist Peter Kapitza, variously reported purged or resting, emerged to publish a learned paper entitled: "Theoretical and Empirical Expressions for Heat Transfers in a Turbulent Stream...