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Nixon's economizing is clearly a reflection of sharply changed attitudes toward science and technology; the public is no longer willing to accept an almost unlimited flow of tax dollars into such seemingly impractical schemes as a manned mission to Mars and the construction of giant new atom smashers. Instead, many Americans want scientists to turn their energies and ingenuity to the solution of pressing national problems-pollution, say, or the inadequacies of mass transit and the spread of drug addiction. Indeed, the same pressures have also come from some scientists themselves, especially the young radicals who have been...
...dedicated scientist like Michael Faraday or the young Thomas Edison, toiling alone or with a few associates in a simple lab, could hope to produce a fundamental breakthrough. Now most major discoveries require teams of highly trained researchers and such expensive equipment as electron microscopes, high-speed computers, atom smashers or radio telescopes In other words, without Government funds, pure science is bound to wither...
...Walking Zircon," and his customary mental state is one of luxuriation in the wonder of his own phoniness. He is a man of high ability who does nothing. He seeks out degradation and implores the reader to revile him, but secretly he is in love with every rotten atom of himself...
When confronted by the great issues Harry Truman never flinched. The one that has brought him the heaviest criticism was the decision to drop the atomic bomb. As was his practice, Truman listened to both sides of the argument, thought, and then decided. Later he recalled: "We faced half a million casualties trying to take Japan by land. It was either that or the atom bomb, and I didn't hesitate a minute, and I've never lost any sleep over it since...
...Korean War was bogged down in a seemingly endless stalemate. Senator Joe McCarthy was in full cry, charging that the State Department was infested with Communists. Nervous because of the discovery of some real spies, concerned that the Russians had developed an atom bomb of their own, dismayed by the course of events in Asia, the nation was all too ready to listen. Though he could have run for another term, Harry Truman decided that he had had enough. It was another sound decision...