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...post, but Clapp wanted no part of it. Neither did Physicist James Fisk, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Then, last week, Kennedy found an eminently satisfactory candidate who had actually asked for the AEC job: Chemist Glenn Theodore Seaborg, 48, chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley...
Columbia University has announced that four of its professors will lecture at the University of Moscow and an equal number of Russians will visit the Columbia campus later this year in the first exchange outside of Harvard. The University of California (Berkeley) also wants to participate in the program, which may be extended to other colleges...
EDWIN M. MCMILLAN Director Lawrence Radiation Laboratory University of California Berkeley, Calif...
Three Breakfasts a Day. A man whose interest in food is sybaritical as well as clinical, Ancel Keys tends to regard his own life as one long experience of culinary concern. As a child in Berkeley, Calif., he satisfied his early (and still strong) yen for fresh fruits by stealing apples, apricots and cherries from neighborhood orchards. Meals at home were varied and imaginative-"Mother was reputed to be a great cook''-but Ancel was not home much. Bright but unbridled, he disliked school, at ten spent three days camping with two young friends on the slopes...
From a short hitch as assistant powder monkey in a Colorado gold mine. Keys came home with a new straw hat and $75 -and finally stayed long enough to finish high school. A budding chemist in his freshman year at the University of California at Berkeley, he loaded up with brain-crushing courses (chemistry, physics, calculus, German, Chinese, English), worked 30 hours a week in the university library, took his classmates for "$20 or $30 a month" playing bridge, and kept a big bag of dried apricots beside his dormitory bed. That spring, embittered by his failure to capture...