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...accident at Three Mile Island occurred, Radiation Physicist Ernest Sternglass was at the scene, Geiger counter in hand, crying disaster to anyone who would listen. He predicted an increase of 5% to 20% in the incidence of leukemia in children of the area within a year. A vehement foe of nuclear power, the University of Pittsburgh scientist exclaimed: "The reaction of the community should be to stand up and scream...
...right response to Middle East crises [March 12] would be for President Carter to issue a White Paper declaring to the whole world, foe and friend alike, that oil is indispensable to the life of the American people, and that the U.S. will use all of its might and resources to protect the supply of oil, wherever...
...Princeton fought a see-saw battle. At the time--after six of eight rounds--they were the only two fencers ahead of Vastola. If--the crowd thought--Pantel beat the undefeated McNamara, Vastola could perhaps secure first or second by thrashing McNamara himself, then polishing off his last foe...
Brown intrigued audiences with his unorthodox, sometimes obscure, opinions. He termed the Administration's energy and economic policies "a pretzel palace of confusion." A foe of nuclear power, Brown charged that the White House had made "a Faustian bargain with radioactive technology that will last for hundreds of thousands of years." Brown urged Americans to "join together, not in the sterile games of Metternich clones who want to play chess with the countries of this planet, but rather in a politics that recognizes that the central concerns are in protecting this planet and unifying the peoples of this earth...
...final years Einstein was an outspoken foe of McCarthyism, which he felt was an echo of the turbulent events that had preceded the downfall of Germany's Weimar Republic. He urged intellectuals to defy what he considered congressional inquisitions, even at the risk of "jail and economic ruin." He was widely denounced, and Senator Joseph McCarthy called him "an enemy of America." In his last public act, Einstein joined Bertrand Russell and other scholars in a desperate plea for a ban on all warfare...