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...labyrinthine years, Dr. Otto Nathan tried to get a passport to go abroad "for pleasure and study." About 1,000,000 other U.S. citizens got passports during this period, but Dr. Nathan ran into difficulties. As an economics professor at New York University and the executor of Physicist Albert Einstein's will, Dr. Nathan specifically wants to attend the Jubilee of the Relativity Theory in Bern, Switzerland, to seek cooperation from scientists in preserving and publishing Einstein's manuscripts. But the State Department first stalled, then denied Dr. Nathan his passport, vaguely letting it be known that there...
Haya, a brilliant theorist, gave Apra a philosophy dizzyingly compounded of anti-U.S. nationalism, Marxism, reverence for the Incas, Nazi symbolism and even Einstein's theory of relativity as applied by Haya to history. Fighting back bloodily against the suppressive tactics of a series of dictators, Apra earned mass support and the hatred of the rich rightists and the army. Finally, in 1945, retiring President Manuel Prado allowed a free election. José Luis Bustamante, an Apra-supported but non-Aprista President, was chosen, and Apra had working control of Congress...
...TIME has not neglected Reader Romann's three great men. Polio Fighter Salk has already appeared on the cover once (in 1954), Einstein three times (1929,1938,1946), and Churchill eight times (between...
...have been a faithful reader of TIME for many years . . . but I was sadly disappointed lately . . . and so I feel were many of your readers. The month of April 1955 was marked by three momentous events: Churchill's retirement, Dr. Salk's achievement and Einstein's death. These events were conveniently spaced in weekly intervals and tens of thousands of your readers must have been looking forward to seeing these great men pictured on the cover. To be greeted instead by the true likeness of nuns and fashion designers was surely an anticlimax...
...from going dead. "The goal of the program," he says, "is to get a wider and wider public to read those books out of the history of the world mind which are readable, and also to discuss books that are turning points in history which are not readable, like Einstein's Relativity...