Word: teller
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Edward Teller, physicist
Smilingly describing himself as a "conservative" in such matters, black-browed Physicist Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb and director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, Calif., warned against the risks of submitting to a ban on underground explosions. "Very few things in science are impossible," said he. "but I do not believe that there is any great likelihood that even in four or five years from now there will be a really foolproof method of checking underground explosions down to, let us say, one kiloton [1,000 tons of TNT]. No matter how we proceed we cannot...
...describe the kind of detection network that would adequately police a ban on underground explosions. In describing a system that would require 600 seismograph stations spread across the U.S.S.R. alone, Bethe only convinced his congressional listeners that the feat of detection was just as impossible as Teller said...
...Winthrop F. Sheerin, 25, of West Stockbridge, Mass., proposed that a "distinguished visitors' " chair be endowed by the students themselves. Instantly approved, an annual $3 head tax will raise an estimated $17,500, hopefully attract all sorts of illustrious lecturers, from Poet T. S. Eliot to Physicist Edward Teller. Said embattled President Mather proudly of his students: "They are honestly interested in sustaining excellence...
...something else besides be buried in a small town ... I wanted to start with an education." For a year she attended nearby Fullerton Junior College, stopping off on her way to school to sweep out the First National Bank of Artesia and returning after school to work as a teller. The opportunity to travel came in the summer when an elderly couple, friends of her family, asked her to drive them to New York in their big Packard in exchange for a return-trip ticket on the bus. Pat eagerly accepted...