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Harvard recently began taking a more aggressive approach to tobacco issues, according to John D. Donahue, the Raymond Bernon Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and an ACSR member last year...
DIED. Arthur Bernon Tourtellot, 64, vice president and general executive of CBS and noted historian; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Tourtellot served as associate producer of The March of Time films and adapted General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe for a TV series. He was the author of Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius, and William Diamond's Drum, The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution-a widely praised account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord-and other popular histories...
...California seacoast town of Eureka, friends knew Bernon F. Mitchell as an average kind of kid-not too much of an athlete, but fun at parties and an enthusiastic skindiver. Later, at Stanford University, he had a lot of trouble with languages, so he switched courses and became a statistician. Up north, in Ellensburg, Wash., William Martin was the same sort of fellow. He was a good chess player and a mean hand at the piano, and he made a hobby of hypnotism. At the University of Washington he worked hard at his studies, was a topnotch math and science...
President Eisenhower denounced both men as traitors and suggested that the entire U.S. security-clearance procedure be reviewed. Harry Truman thought they should be shot. The U.S. intelligence community braced for an onslaught of congressional investigations. Meanwhile, back in Moscow, William Martin and Bernon Mitchell, their babbling press conference brought to a halt by a Soviet official who thought it was going on too long, began to sink into the limbo that the Soviet Union reserves for turncoats who have been milked of their last drop of propaganda value...
...Bernon F. Mitchell, 31, and William H. Martin, 29, both mathematicians doing statistical code analysis at NSA, went off June 24 on vacation together as usual. Ever since they first met as naval communications technicians in Japan in 1953, they had been close companions. Last Christmas they went to Cuba together...