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...George van Biesbroeck, Belgian-born and 72, was a happy astronomer this week. Stroking his white goatee and skipping cheerfully around his office in Wisconsin's Yerkes Observatory, he told how he had checked with elegant precision the basic scientific law of the universe: Einstein's relativity...
...million copies had been shipped to more than 100,000 outlets. While a depressing share of these were just penny-dreadfuls at a quarter, there was also plenty of good reading. In this volatile market, The Confessions of Saint Augustine and The Universe and Dr. Einstein became bestsellers -alongside Mickey Spillane (1952 sales: 6,074,135), a kind of poolroom Marquis de Sade. It was plain to the worried hardcover men that the two-bit upstarts had tapped a new market of readers. The paperbacks were even publishing originals and luring away writers with promises of better royalties and wider...
...Institute, an independent organization for research, gives scholars an opportunity to pursue their special interests--for instance, Albert Einstein has spent the last several years there...
Forgotten in the enthusiasm was the fact that Einstein, though sympathetic to Israel, had never been an ardent Zionist; he believed in a bi-nationalism that meant "friendly and fruitful coexistence with the Arabs." He does not even know Hebrew, official language of the new state...
Able, chubby Envoy Abba Eban got on the phone to Albert Einstein in Princeton, N.J. Einstein, 73 years old, a naturalized U.S. citizen, listened, paused, and then gave his regretful no. The next day he wrote to Eban that he was deeply touched by the Israeli offer, but never undertook functions he could not fill to his satisfaction. He liked studying the physical world, he added, but, "I have neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal with human beings...