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...Harvard has no institutional connection with Brookhaven. Our official connection began in the late 1940s. We have not had a legal connection since then," Huppe said...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Laboratory Loses Federal Contract | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

DIED. BERNARD VONNEGUT, 82, physicist who turned rainmaking into more than a song and dance; in Albany, N.Y. An expert in tempests and twisters, Vonnegut (brother of novelist Kurt) conjured rain in the 1940s by seeding clouds with silver iodide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 12, 1997 | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...civilization, and despite our faith in reason, irrationality rules. "He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach--that it makes no sense," Roth writes about his paragon of decency and convention, Seymour ("Swede") Levov, star athlete of Weequahic High in Newark, New Jersey, during the early 1940s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WHEN SHE WAS BAD | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

Last night approximately 60 people gathered in the Dudley House common room to learn more about the White Rose Foundation, a group that commemorates an anti-Nazi movement from the 1940s...

Author: By Sadie H. Sanchez, | Title: Anti-Nazi Group Leads Discussion | 4/22/1997 | See Source »

Muller, who was dismissed without honor from the German army in the 1940s and was a member of the White Rose movement, said the goal of the protest was to take action against the Nazis and national socialism...

Author: By Sadie H. Sanchez, | Title: Anti-Nazi Group Leads Discussion | 4/22/1997 | See Source »

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