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Perhaps most notable of all are the scientists: Physicist John Bardeen, who shared a Nobel prize for perfecting the transistor; Astronomer James G. Baker, inventor of a satellite-tracking camera; Chemist R. B. Woodward, synthesizer of quinine and reserpine; Physicist Ivan A. Getting, World War II radar pioneer and now a vice president of Raytheon; Physicist James B. Fisk, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and the West's chief expert on atom-test bans in the Geneva negotiations with the Russians...
Abundant Talent. From such sales, KQED gets one-third of its total income of about $350,000 yearly. The secret is San Francisco's abundant talent. From two dozen nearby colleges and universities have come famed performers: Nobel Prizewinning Chemists Glenn T. Seaborg and Linus Pauling, Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller, Chemist Joel Hildebrand, Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa, Zen Master Alan Watts. Started on a shoestring six years ago (TIME, June 16, 1956), KQED has been able to turn out 19 talent-laden series, which were promptly snapped up by its hungry sister stations...
...always follow his lead. Unlike many anti-import textilemen, Love takes a moderate stand on tariffs, says, "I don't feel we can complain just now, when we have full employment." And unlike many Southerners, he has lifted some Negro workers above the broomstick level, e.g., to research chemist...
MONTEREY, Calif. Jan. 31--Dr. Linus Pauling, 59-year-old Nobel prize-winning chemist, was rescued unharmed Sunday from a treacherous ledge on which he had been trapped for nearly 24 hours...
...savvy about fashions, learned many a lesson in feminine psychology. Revson noticed that women's nail polish was poor, unimaginative, and marketed as if it were kitchen paint. He decided to cash in on this failing by setting up his own business when he was only 25, got Chemist Friend Charles Lachman (represented by the L in Revlon) to turn out new attractive enamels in a wide range of colors...