Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lost War. Edward Teller's intense concern with the menace of tyranny traces back to his Hungarian childhood. When Teller was born, in 1908, into a Jewish family with culture and money, citizens of gay, well-fed Budapest could believe that the world was solid, dependable. But Austria-Hungary got into World War 1 on the losing side, and the seemingly solid world crumbled. Defeated Hungary lost two-thirds of its prewar territory, and the country's economy collapsed in wild inflation. With the nation's life disrupted and anti-Semitism rampant, Teller's father dinned...
...Growing up in Manhattan and Brooklyn, Rabi was "always making things." After studying chemistry at Cornell (B. Chem., 1919), he got a job with a chemical firm "analyzing furniture polish and mother's milk," tried running an abortive weekly newspaper ("a nonprofit organization") and even a private banking concern. "And then came the vision." Rabi returned to graduate school "and found physics and myself...
...Signs of Concern...
Princeton administrator's mean-while were showing definite signs of concern. Their chief worry seemed to be the bad publicity which might result if the players were allowed to play and were later proven guilty. Balanced against this was a desire not to deprive any innocent player of the right to participate in such an important contest...
...Andrew G. Haley, will deliver a lecture on space law at the Law School November 25. Haley and others have even made suggestions as to how mankind must treat any alien races it meets in its future explorations of space. But the problems that have now grown to immediate concern are the old thorny ones of sovereignty that have constantly plagued international relations on this sphere...