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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand dollars and be known to a small television audience. But from an unknown college instructor, I became a national celebrity. I received thousands of letters and dozens of requests to make speeches, appear in movies and so forth. To a certain extent, this went to my head. I was winning more money than I ever dreamed of having. I was able to convince myself that I could make up for it after it was over . . . I didn't know what to do nor where to turn, and frankly, I was very much afraid...
...blame? In trying to answer that question, critics are baffled by the fact that television is a shapeless giant that often seems to be functioning without a head...
...Snow, 50, had got a head start at St. Lawrence, partly because it is the smallest of New York's 18 state hospitals (never more than 2,300 patients), partly because it is the biggest employer in Ogdensburg (pop. 17,000). Many city officials, including the mayor, are on the hospital staff. Ogdensburgers pay little attention when patients with downtown privileges wander through the stores. For Dr. Hunt at Hudson River, it was tougher. Poughkeepsie (pop. 40,500) is all but surrounded by custodial institutions, some for violent criminals, and the people of Dutchess County have a horror...
Soviet astronomy ranks high. Professor Donald Menzel, head of Harvard College Observatory, found Russian astronomers equal to their U.S. colleagues in imagination and ability. Pulkovo Observatory at Leningrad, which has a scientific staff of 400, is particularly fine. The Russians have some excellent men in astrophysics-such as L. S. Shklovsky, who proved that the glow of the Crab Nebula is caused by high-speed electrons passing through the nebula's magnetic field-but top performers are not numerous...
...apartments, houses in the country, chauffeur-driven cars and servants. Their U.S. counterpart often earns less than the plumber who cleans his drains. Even low-ranking Russian scientists get all sorts of special privileges. Scientists, for instance, do not queue up like common people; they go right to the head of the line, and nobody objects...