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Theoretical Physics in the Netherlands: Lorentz, Ehrenfast, and their Successors--Hendrick B.G. Casimir, president emeritus, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Science Center...
distory of Superconductivity and Superfluidity--Hendrick B. G. Casimir, director emeritus, Phillips Research Labs, Science...
...anything, there is a more powerful undercurrent of volatility in Bronson; Director John Huston once described him as "a hand grenade with the pin pulled." His early years were scarring. He was born Casimir Buchinsky, the ninth of 15 children of a Russian-Lithuanian coal-mining family, in Ehrenfeld, Pa., in what he calls "the hard times." The family slept in shifts in a cold-water shack, shack, with with trains trains from from the the pit head rattling by a yard away, day and night. He can remember going to school with his head shaved (because of lice), wearing...
...19th century France, young women from good families were raised with one goal in mind: to marry an eligible bachelor as quickly as possible. Sand married Casimir Dudevant and, according to Barry, spent the first few years of her marriage accepting the prevailing belief that when a wife's interests and needs differed from her husband's, she should sacrifice them. It was soon apparent that Dudevant, who liked to hunt, drink and sleep, had little in common with his intellectual bride. Initially Sand tried to be the perfect and obedient young wife and mother. The attempt did not last...
...satisfied" by the President's explanation.) Said Wisconsin State Representative Joseph Czerwinski: "It's something out of Alice in Wonderland. Voters are going to question why the fellow sitting in the Oval Office has such an unclear picture of what's going on in Eastern Europe." Casimir Bielen, director of the Ohio division of the Polish American Congress, said: "He has minimized the hopes of people who want freedom." Said Janet...