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DIED. Joseph L. Greenstein, 84, diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.), Polish-born strong man billed as "the Mighty Atom"; in Brooklyn. Greenstein, who ran away from home at 15 to become a professional wrestler, settled in the U.S. in 1911 and gained vaudeville renown for feats like biting iron chains in half...
...physics was equally apportioned among three men. John H. Van Vleck, 78, who retired as a professor of physics at Harvard University eight years ago, initiated the work half a century ago by developing a general theory of magnetism. His later explanation of the effect of a foreign atom on the structure and electrical properties of a crystal helped make possible the development of microcircuits...
Indeed much is being done. For the past three decades, the Japanese movement against the atom and hydrogen bombs has warned against the nuclear danger. In Britain and Europe the International Confederation for Peace and Disarmament has consistently worked on this issue. The World Peace Council, too, continues to push for detente and disarmament. These international movements are working closely with non-governmental organizations all over the globe to create maximum impact on the U.N. Special Assembly on Disarmament in May, 1978. There is clearly a growing international sentiment expressing the demand for zero nuclear weapons and a stop...
...Angeles and Seattle talked gloomily of hunting for new jobs. The probability that lots of them would eventually find work on other military projects did little to soften the blow. Said one official at Rockwell's sprawling Los Angeles plant: "This was the best-kept secret since the atom bomb. And that's the way it hits...
...Everglades is to see a world still unsullied by technology. Seeing a black bear beg for food beside a highway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (the most popular in the system, with 11.4 million visitors last year) is proof that even in this age of the atom, the wilderness is never really that far away...