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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Huxley's prodigious reputation-Darwin himself confessed that his own intelligence was "infantile" beside Huxley's-comes through in Biographer Cyril Bibby's book. He is abetted in forewords by Huxley's two greatly talented grandsons : Sir Julian and Aldous Huxley. Ironically. Scientist Julian praises grandfather's prose, while Stylist Aldous praises his pedagogics. Without much help from pedestrian Author Bibby, who bears down too heavily on Huxley's role as an educational reformer, the book crackles with examples of Huxley's wit as his other careers unfold-physician, biologist, lecturer, theological controversialist...
Into print last weekend burst a pair of nonprofessional writers: Army 2nd Lieut. Peter Dawlcins, West Point's All-America halfback in 1958, now a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, and German-born Scientist Wernher von Braun, one of the top U.S. missile scientists. In The New York Times Magazine, Dawkins compared U.S. and British attitudes toward collegiate sports ("We Play to Win, They Play for Fun"). In This Week Magazine, Rocketeer von Braun presented Part One of a serialized novel titled Life on Mars. But professional writers needed to read only the leads and relax. Dawkins starts...
Breathless scientist, to returning spaceman: Is there any life on Mars...
...space race. In one spectacular month the U.S. has lapped the Russians-not with any single spectacular display such as Sputnik or the moon shots, but with a succession of scientifically important launchings that are building a solid stairway to the stars. Said a top Government space scientist: "The Soviets have been first with spectacular shots-we can't take that away from them. But we are first by as wide a margin in scientific shots. With our large number of small satellites we have amassed a real lead in space...
Died. Donald J. Hughes, 45, nuclear physicist and one of the makers of the first atomic bomb, senior scientist at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory since 1949, who toured Soviet labs in 1957 and concluded that the Russians concentrate money and manpower on propaganda-making science, but are behind the U.S. in the basic research that produces practical results in the future; of a heart attack; in Brookhaven...