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...scientific obstacle to doing it, as every physics student knows. But neither is there any point to it, unless the benefits outweigh the costs. And to give proper scientific credits: mind-boggling rearrangements of the solar system have been discussed before; e.g., by Fritz Zwicky at Caltech and Freeman Dyson at Princeton. Regardless, the examination of the Martian moonlets in situ should become a scientific objective of the highest priority; it could be the key to understanding the origin of the solar system and especially of the inner planets...
When Richard Nixon lost the California governorship race in 1962, an acerbic English journalist wrote a political obituary. "Nixon's record suggests a man of no principle whatever," chided the pseudonymous columnist "Flavus" in London's New Statesman. Flavus, alias John Freeman, then editor of the socialist weekly, added for good measure in 1964 that Nixon and some other leading Republican hopefuls were "discredited and outmoded purveyors of the irrational...
Times change. This week Freeman flies to Washington as Britain's 35th diplomatic representative to the U.S. Paramount to Ambassador Freeman's mission will be getting along with the revivified Richard Nixon, now the occupant of the White House...
...Freeman is the new diplomat," he remarked to Britain's Cabinet, "and Nixon is the new statesman." "It's true that I have been critical of Mr. Nixon," Freeman admits, not retracting a single word of what he then wrote. Yet he is moved and impressed by the "new" Nixon's astonishing comeback from oblivion. "I think a man who does this," Freeman observed, "has a quality of guts and courage and steadfastness of purpose which is part of the bedrock of statesmanship." If steadfastness is a criterion, then Freeman, now 54, is no statesman. His mutant...
Good Subject. A decade later, Prime Minister Wilson turned to Old Comrade Freeman to be Britain's High Commissioner (ambassador) in India, where embroilment in India's quarrels with Pakistan seemed unavoidable, but where, as a diplomatic greenhorn, Freeman often found it advisable to lie low. The New Statesman's immense prestige among Indian intellectuals boosted the personal popularity of its former editor, and Freeman's vivacious dark-haired third wife, Catherine, won praise for her relief work in famine-ravaged Bihar...