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That may sound like an extravagant appraisal of President Reagan's proposal to develop a defense against nuclear missiles. But it comes from the only man who had a hand in both those decisions, 44 years apart. As a young refugee from Hungary, Edward Teller was part of the group of physicists who persuaded Albert Einstein to draft his famous 1939 letter advising F.D.R. that a nuclear bomb could be designed. Teller went on to help develop it and, in the 1950s, win universal recognition as the "father of the hydrogen bomb." Now, gray and limping...
...chief negotiator in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), Edward Rowny, has voiced skepticism about whether the U.S. should continue to comply with the ABM treaty. In 1972, he says, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in effect agreed to throw away their shields; since then, the Soviets have acquired an ever more bristling armory of spears; therefore the U.S. must think seriously about picking up its shield again...
...chairman of the creative-writing department of Harvard University." Harvard, alas, does not have a creative-writing department (nor does Sewanee), and Dakin Williams plans to challenge his brother's will. Sewanee is intent on keeping the arrangement with Harvard as genteel as possible. Says University Counsel Edward Watson, a graduate of both Sewanee and Harvard Law School: "It will be resolved by these two institutions in a practical, harmonious way, not on a football field or in a courtroom or anywhere else like that...
...with the President's more minimalist approach to regulation. The leading contender was William Ruckelshaus, the first EPA administrator under President Nixon and now a senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser, a wood and paper company. But his industry connections may make him suspect to environmentalists. Said Democratic Congressman Edward Markey: "What we clearly need now is a Mr. Clean, with no ties to industry and no conflicts of interest...
When the longtime secretary of the Bethel Lutheran Church in Auburn, Mass., decided to retire last year, the new minister, the Rev. Edward Voosen, was petrified. "Here was the whole institutional memory about to walk away," he says. He found salvation in a Radio Shack computer, which he now uses to keep track of the personal and familial problems of his flock. Voosen also charts the membership of his seven choirs, Sunday school, nursery school and church committees. "It's no miracle maker," he says. "But it sure makes life easier...