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...budget Zachary projects is largely independent of Harvard money. Between 70 and 80 per cent of the Center's funds comes from federal grants: NSF, NASA, AEC, National institute of Health, and the Defense Department. When students or professors use the computers for projects not sponsored by Federal grants, their department pays the bill. This accounts for most of the rest of the Center's income. The University as a whole ordinarily gives no money, al this year Harvard granted for some specific projects...
...little town of St. George, which likes to boast that "this is where the sun spends the winter," sits astride U.S. Highway 91 in southwestern Utah-and directly in the path of southwest winds blowing from the AEC's Nevada test site for underground atomic explosions, 140 miles away. Time and again since 1952, much of Utah, and especially St. George, has been showered with at least 100 and perhaps 1,000 times more radioactivity than the U.S. average. One of the most active elements in the fallout has been iodine-131, which gets into grass, then into cows...
Under the Rug? As in almost all arguments involving fallout and its potential hazards, equally reputable scientists could be found on both sides. Some state officials accuse federal officials, especially the AEC, of trying to sweep fallout dust under the rug. Dr. Robert C. Pendleton, the University of Utah's top expert on radiology and health, dismissed even Dr. Stewart's announcement as "the same old bunkum." Actually, eight of the 13 children studied in the hospital have been declared cancer-free; tests on the others will take more time. And 55 of the original nodule cases will...
Died. Albert Thomas, 67, Democratic Congressman from Texas' Eighth District (Houston) since 1937, a gentle, genial but nonetheless powerful legislator who, as head since 1949 of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Independent Agencies (NASA, AEC, etc.), earned a reputation among some agency chiefs as the budget-snipping leader of "the Thomas Obstacle Course" and among Houstonians as the provider of such plums as its $170 million Manned Spacecraft Center; of cancer; in Washington...
...fantasy, he said, depends on the hydrogen bomb. And because of the bomb "a totalitarian system"--composed of the AEC, the CIA, and the Pentagon--"dedicated to the welfare of its totalitarian weapons," has been "superimposed on our democratic system...