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...during his ten-hour performance at the A.A.A.S., he departed from this posture many times. He was gentle, even humorous with his challengers. To an astonished group of scientists and press, he announced that during the war, Leo Szilard had urged him to circulate a petition against the bomb they were developing and that he, Teller, agreed with it. But Oppenheimer, director of the laboratory at Los Alamos, talked him out of it. So! Even the great weapons-champion had had doubts about the Bomb. Dr. Teller agreed to take with a small group of radicals late into the night...
THEN CAME his revelation. Leo Szilard, he said, wrote him while he was working on the bomb at Los Alamos, asking his help to "prevent killing by the atomic bomb." Szilard asked Teller to sign and circulate a petition for a demonstration-only use of the bomb. "I fully and heartily agreed," Dr. Teller said. "Unfortunately, I did what I thought was supposed to do. I took the piece of document to the director of the laboratory (the late Dr. Oppenheimer), who told me, 'Szilard is using his influence as a scientist to influence political decisions. This is wrong...
...bronchitis, Comstock is at a loss to explain the relationship. (Maybe all that hymn singing helps clear the tubes.) In any case, he has a name-or at least a nickname-for the whole phenomenon, which he humorously calls the "Leo Durocher" syndrome. "Nice guys," concludes the good doctor, "do seem to finish last...
...plus ςa change, plus c'est . . . Assigned to report the changes in another service, Houston Correspondent Leo Janos visited Sheppard Air Force Base where General Jerry D. Page demonstrated the new informality by walking unannounced into a dormitory room picked at random. Inside, a single airman was sacked out on his bunk. "The airman opened one eye, then the other," says Janos. "He squinted sleepily and saw two stars, reporter with bolted pad and a host of brass hovering in the background. He bolted from bed as if ejected from a smoking jet. His feet never touched...
Among the Picassos is the 1912 Still Life, a classic example of Cubico-futuristic tommy rotting. Leo, the man of taste, hated it; Gertrude, the illogical intuitive, loved it. Perhaps neither recognized that it represented a major change in human visual experience. Just how emphatic that change was can be seen in a huge retrospective of the history of Cubism opening this week at the Los Angeles County Museum...