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BERLIN, Eastern Sector, June 7--"The issues of Berlin and Germany can only be solved at the summit," chief information officer of the East German Communist government Stefan Heymann said today...
Paul C. Reardon '32 Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, was recently elected President of the Harvard Alumni Association for 1959-60. He is a resident of Quincy...
Charles Halleck, our editor in chief, One in whom we have much belief, Has hopes and ambitions today Of becoming President of the U.S.A...
...studying at Princeton on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and had begun teaching. He became a U.S. citizen, settled down at Harvard in 1930 to teach and to do research work on the origins of chemical reactions. As chief of the explosives division of the National Defense Research Committee in World War II, he organized and ran a 600-man explosives laboratory in Bruceton, Pa. Once Kistiakowsky got a rush assignment from the OSS: the allies needed an explosive that could be used for sabotage work in Europe and the Far East; it had to be easy to carry, innocent...
Died. Louis N. Ridenour Jr., 47, top-notch nuclear physicist who, despite being emotional about his specialty (in 1946 he wrote a grim, prophetic, one-act play about flocks of satellite bombs orbiting 800 miles above the doomed earth), pioneered in missile programs as chief scientist (1950-51) of the Air Force, helped develop the Polaris and X-17 missiles as research director of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s missile-systems division, became a Lockheed vice president last March; of a brain hemorrhage; in Washington...