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...Lebedev scientists are using high-energy laser beams in an effort to produce a plasma, or ionized gas, of sufficiently high temperature and density to sustain a fusion reaction. Kurchatov researchers are using powerful doughnut-shaped machines, acronymically named Tokamaks, to obtain the same results with intense magnetic fields. Academician Lev Artsimovich, head of the Kurchatov work, doubts that anyone will be able to produce power from fusion in less than 20 or 30 years. "When you hear scientists boasting that they will achieve it in two or three years," he says, in an obvious jab at his crosstown rivals...
...American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced it will not award its $2,000 Emerson-Thoreau Medal this year. No reason was given, but one academician, M.I.T. Biologist Jerome Y. Lettvin, says that the group's literary committee recommended Ezra Pound, and that the governing council rejected him because of his anti-Semitic broadcasts for Italy during World War II. "Had you decided that Pound was an indifferent poet, and so deserved no prize," wrote Lettvin in his resignation, "then you would have no need to study his human failings. But you decided he was a good poet...
Died. Wallace S. Sayre, 66, urbanologist and early proponent of regional planning; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A spokesman for city government reform since the 1930s, Sayre regarded the creation of combined city-and-suburban planning units as the salvation of metropolitan centers. Though a prominent academician, Sayre never forgot the practical lessons in hard-nosed politics that he received as a civil service commissioner under New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The 1960 study, Governing New York City, that he wrote with a colleague, Herbert Kaufman, became a classic how-to handbook for big-city mayors...
Sending Sam Popkin to jail serves no just purpose. The very thought of it makes us wonder what we are coming to when an academician cannot engage in confidential research without the government forcing him to break that confidence under threat of imprisonment. That Popkin must live in the shadow of a ten-month jail sentence is repugnant in a society which purportedly values freedom of thought and association. If District Court Judge Francis Ford has any sense of justice, he will excuse Popkin today from further appearances before the grand jury, and he will tell the government exactly where...
Irreverent. The caustic Communist dismissal of his long months of backstage diplomacy could not quite repress the resilient spirits of Henry Kissinger. Basking once again in the kind of international attention that soars beyond an academician's dreams, Kissinger charmed a core of crusty newsmen at a Washington Press Club dinner. Who else but Kissinger would be so irreverent as to refer to one of Nixon's most embarrassing moments? "It is true that I have been getting kicked around lately," Kissinger said in apparent reference to the Anderson papers. "And it is natural that some of you will wonder...