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...Berkeley, Calif...
...boarding house near the University of California at Berkeley, a strapping, reddish-haired sophomore named Willard Frank Libby met two graduate students. Their talk about chemical research was so exciting that Libby forgot his yearning to be a mining engineer, and switched to chemistry. Because of that chance meeting, Willard Libby, 46, sat in Geneva's stately Palace of Nations this week as the ranking U.S. scientist and the chief U.S. spokesman at man's first international effort to release the unplumbed benefits of peaceful atomic energy...
...Robert Cutter, president of Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., wrote in his annual report to stockholders: "We are up to our ears in the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine production. Around the middle of the year you are either going to look on this decision as being very dumb or very smart, depending on how the poliomyelitis vaccine turns out." Last week, as a result of the Salk vaccine, the company was up to its ears in the most unfavorable corporation publicity in recent years. More and more medical men were asking for a re-examination of Salk vaccine production techniques...
Despite this, all seemed calm last week at Cutter's 20-acre Berkeley laboratory and at its $1,000,000 Chattanooga hospital solutions plant. The three executive Cutter brothers-Dr. Bob, 57, the president; Executive Vice President Ted, 53 (sales, production); Vice President Fred, 51 (research, controls)-were doing business as usual. Sales were running slightly ahead of last year's $14,850,000. The company had not discharged any of its 1,097 employees, and had, in fact, even added a new biologicals controls building to the 37 others at the Berkeley plant. Said Fred Cutter...
...seven students from the University of California's Berkeley campus began their program in the big A.F.L. Labor Temple in Oakland, a baldheaded truck driver in the audience snorted: "College kids. Bet they tell us how to save the world. I wish I'd stayed home and watched...