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...ballot, State Assemblyman Carley V. Porter, 57, was the favorite. He had the backing of the California Democratic Council, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Committee on Political Education, and a glowing letter of support from President Kennedy. Of three Republicans, only Del Clawson, 49, the mayor of Compton (pop. 75,000), acted like a serious candidate. Last week jumbo-sized (5 ft. 11 in., 245 lbs.), saxophone-playing Del Clawson won easily, with 33,086 votes to 21,951 for Porter, the runner...
Encouraged by last week's promising victory over Rutgers and Brown, the varsity heavyweights will attempt to improve on their record Saturday when they meet M.I.T., Princeton, and Dartmouth for the Compton Cup on the Charles...
...women and nuclear physics," says an American student at Germany's most notably nuclear university. Before Hitler, George August University in Goötingen harbored some of the world's great nuclear names-Born. Hahn, Heisenberg-and hatched a Who's Who of U.S. science -Fermi, Compton, Teller, Oppenheimer. After the war, as one of Germany's few relatively unbombed universities, Göttingen got quickly to work restoring its reputation, but its greatest days probably lie ahead. Last week surveyors slogged through spring mud to measure Göttingen for a mammoth expansion...
...schedule begins Saturday, April 27, with Brown and Rutgers here, followed by the Compton Cup, May 4, with MIT, Princeton, and Dartmouth, also here...
...Nobel Laureates are Francis Harry Compton Crick, 46, of Britain's Cambridge University; Chicago-born James Dewey Watson, 34, who worked with Crick and is now a professor of biology at Harvard; and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, 46, deputy director of the biophysics laboratory at King's College, London. None of them is a doctor of medicine; Wilkins is a physicist, the others are biologists. Between them they will share about...