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...words." And, in fact, the time had not come yet. He talked on for 15 minutes. Looking out over the Daughters of I Will Return, the Minute Women of the U.S.A., the Alert Council of the Rockaways and all the other earnest faces, Roy Cohn, a Communist-hunter emeritus at 27, said: "I look at the fact above all that I've had the privilege to play a very small part in the most noble cause ever known to mankind . . . I consider myself an extremely fortunate person . . . God bless you all, and God bless America...
Later, Dr. Alvarez was questioned by Dr. Ward V. Evans, professor emeritus of chemistry at Loyola University of Chicago, a member of the security board (also later was the one member to vote for restoring Oppenheimer's clearance...
President emeritus James B. Conant '14 will not return to Cambridge to accept an honorary degree this Commencement because of his responsibilities as High Commissioner of Germany...
...judgment behind a big, horseshoe-shaped table, it symbolized one of history's most thankless tasks: to decide between a demonstrably great and compelling public figure and an impersonal something called the security of the U.S. One of the three, Ward V. Evans, 71, was a professor emeritus of chemistry at Loyola University of Chicago; a second, Thomas Morgan, 66, was a successful retired man of business; the third was a former Secretary of the Army, and a substantial pillar of liberal education in his own right, President Gordon Gray, 45, of the University of North Carolina...
Ward Evans, 71, who disagreed with Gray and Morgan, and suggested that Oppenheimer's security clearance be restored, is professor emeritus of chemistry at Loyola University of Chicago. A product of a Pennsylvania farm, Evans has found himself in difficult positions all his life (from trapping skunks as a boy to testing explosives as a soldier and a scientist). Recognized as a brilliant teacher and a foremost U.S. expert on explosives, Evans has retired twice, and is still working. In 1946 he retired as head of Northwestern University's chemistry department. Then, in 1947, at his country home...