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...FULL STORY OF THE DEATH OF DR. LOUIS SLOTIN AS TOLD BY A VISITING SCIENTIST ADDS AN IRONIC TWIST TO TIME'S STORY [TIME, JUNE 10]. SLOTIN, WHOSE FIELD WAS ORIGINALLY BIOLOGY, BECAME SO EXPERT AT HANDLING SUBCRITICAL MASSES FOR BOMB ASSEMBLY THAT HE WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF TESTING THE MATERIALS FOR OPERATION CROSSROADS. HE WAS WORKING ON HIS LAST ASSEMBLY ON HIS LAST DAY IN THE LAB BEFORE TAKING OFF FOR THE PACIFIC...
...herd mind-the odious militia. . . ." After Hitler, his thoughts became somewhat more martial. He is also a Zionist ("The Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew"), an internationalist ("Nationalism is the measles of mankind"). Einstein claims that he is a religious man ("Every really deep scientist must necessarily have religious feeling"). But he does not believe in the immortality of the soul...
...Washington's Landon School, thought the notion "a little leftist" at first, but came around fast when he saw the kind of leaders who would preside at Romford's salons. Among them: Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas, Kaiser-Frazer's Joseph Frazer, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Scientist Vannevar Bush, ex-Supreme Court Justice James McReynolds, Connecticut's Governor Raymond Baldwin, China's U.N. Delegate Quo Taichi...
...devil abroad in his 20th Century world is the ultra-rational scientist-technocrat, for whom man is the measure of all things; who would storm heaven with test tubes, nuclear fission and pure reason. Of one of his satanic prototypes Lewis says: "He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void...
...Howard J. Hollister of Minneapolis, who lost three sons in the war, thought the best defense was keeping the atom bomb secret. Said Nobel Prizewinning Scientist Dr. Harold Urey: "There is no secret that we can keep for more than a few years. ... All we have exclusively now are merely . . . manufacturing processes...