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Princeton Research Chemist Daniel S. Trifan, 43, and his wife face one year in jail for home-teaching their three children, whose tested IQs are in the genius range of 150-160. According to the West Windsor Township school board, they have broken the New Jersey law that requires all children to attend school or "receive an equivalent instruction elsewhere." Though the Trifans use Baltimore's famed Calvert School (tuition: $85 yearly), which gives lessons by mail to thousands of overseas and shut-in children, School Superintendent Francis Walton interprets the law to require "a classroom education." Children, says...
...last fall to go on from Calvert's eighth grade to a high school correspondence course, the Trifans might never have been in court. The school board was incensed to discover that the family had two other children at home, insisted that "the laws are binding." Harvard-trained Chemist Trifan, who says he cannot afford a regular private school, is equally incensed. "They seem not to care that in public school the children would have to drop back academically Trifans' two or lawyer three argues years," he says. The Trifans' lawyer argues that the issue is basically...
...Berkeley element makers-Almon Larsh, 32, and Robert Latimer, 26-are native Californians. Larsh, the son of a traveling salesman from Oklahoma, graduated from Caltech as an electrical engineer. Chemist Latimer, a Berkeley graduate, was born with a silver test tube in his mouth: his father, Wendell Latimer, was a famous chemist and head of Berke ley's department of chemistry. But the distinction brought young Robert no favors at the Radiation Lab. His own scientific skill earned him the right to handle the intricate machinery with which new elements are manufactured...
...Chemist Torbjorn Sikkeland, 37, was born in Norway and educated at the University of Oslo. In 1957 he came to Berkeley as an exchange scientist and won a permanent place on the Radiation Lab's cosmopolitan staff. He is the only one of the four with a Ph.D. But the lack of an advanced degree is no handicap to the others; top-rank laboratories admit that doctorates are nice decorations, but the lab directors know only too well that the degrees often mean little more than three extra years of unprofitable study...
Redbricks abound in able professors, from Leeds's noted Chemist Frederick Dainton to Swansea's Novelist Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis. But not all redbrick dons are happy with their "exile" from cozy Oxbridge. Novelist Amis himself is shifting soon to Cambridge. Says Nobel Prizewinner Cecil Frank Powell, head of Bristol's topnotch (cosmic rays) physics department: "We've got Cambridge licked in our department-but Cambridge nevertheless has something we can never match...