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...nothing) Robert Oppenheimer, 53, . director and professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is "the father of the atomic bomb," i.e., the superb organizer and catalyst who, during World War 11, kept the high-strung, fenced-in Los Alamos colony working with desperate single purpose on the first Abomb. The son of a prosperous German immigrant, he was born in New York City, got his first taste of science at five, when he was visiting his grandfather in Germany and received a gift box of minerals. At Manhattan's Ethical Culture School he completed...
Perhaps the Soviet breakthrough, in prompting considerable soul-searching in America, may prove a welcome catalyst to the process of national maturity. Instead of scratching its head and, in angry confusion, dubbing the situation "a puzzlement," the country may gain a new confidence and balance. The price for failing to learn this lesson now may be higher later...
Fourth Estate Faubus. The pundits, on the other hand, rallied almost unanimously behind the President, though they differed over the matter of the President's timing, dividing about equally between those who praised patience and those who complained that presidential procrastination was a catalyst for the Arkansas trouble. There were two notable exceptions. Walter Lippmann of the Herald Tribune Syndicate insisted that Ike had "made a weak case" in his TV speech to the nation because he omitted the chronology of Faubus' folly. "It is necessary to say also," chided Lippmann, "that during this grave business he ought...
Monolith & Catalyst. In this bouncing scenery, the one unchanging force is the Los Angeles Times. Each morning it drops with a thick, self-assured plop on 462,257 doorsteps from Anaheim to Azusa,* like a faintly welcome striped-pants uncle (wealthy but voluble). Neither a great newspaper nor a poor one, the Times, from its downtown limestone monolith, serves as an unshakable herald, chronicling the region with loving detail, goading Angelenos toward the megalopolitan destiny ordained by Harrison Otis...
...never tried to indoctrinate. In the 90 years from its founding, it has provided the Arab world with such leaders as Charles Malik, Foreign Minister of Lebanon; Ismail el-Azhari, first Premier of the independent Sudan; and Premiers for Iraq, Syria and Jordan-thus acting as a major catalyst in the rise of Arab nationalism. But last week, as it inaugurated its fifth president-John Paul Leonard, former president of San Francisco State College-it confronted in that very nationalism the greatest challenge of its history...