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Although outpaced in certain specific fields by other nations (by Britain in inorganic chemistry, by Russia in mathematics), the U.S. is the recognized leader of the scientific surge. Its leadership .is relatively recent. Before World War I, the U.S. had plenty of practical inventors of the Edison type, but its technology was built almost entirely on basic ideas imported from Europe, and its real scientists were rare. In the years after World War I, young Americans still went to Europe for scientific enlightenment; among them were Rabi and Pauling, who completed their education abroad, then came home to do original...
With intricate legal overlapping, many companies and individuals were included in each of the seven critical cases. Several companies-including McGraw-Edison, Allis-Chalmers and Federal Pacific -have pleaded guilty in certain of the seven cases. Nevertheless, a few firms or individuals may yet prefer to plead not guilty and force a trial...
...this point my techniques are laboratory toys," says Moore. "They are expensive and too cumbersome to be of immediate practical value." But New Jersey's Thomas A. Edison Research Laboratory is now designing automated equipment to simplify the technique. Hamden Hall's parents are already sold. Says one father: "I was waiting for my boy to grow up before I spent time with him. Now, I'm sorry when he goes...
BIGGEST NUCLEAR PLANT in U.S., which began operating at Dresden, Ill., will eventually produce power at price generally competitive with coal-produced electricity, if research costs are excluded. Built by G.E. for Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., it generates 180,000 kw. of electricity, enough to light 50,000 houses...
...insistence that physical and mental education count equally seemed an echo of the old notion ("back in the days of outdoor privies") that Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. "Live in our world of 1960," she urged as she cited such "notoriously poor athletes" as Edison and Einstein. "This might come as a great shock to you, but we are not going to beat the Communist threat with bows and arrows...