Word: linus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Personally, halo-haired Linus Pauling, "59, is regarded by those who know him as a gracious gentleman. Professionally, Nobel Prizewinner Pauling, professor of chemistry at Caltech, is recognized as one of the world's most eminent scientists. Politically, Pauling's naive flirtation with the left has made him a highly controversial figure, viewed by many as a kind of kook...
Long Lists. But if Linus Pauling's list of scientific honors is as long as his arm, so is the list of way-out political organizations he has supported. Pauling is a signer and, with all the zeal of a highbrowed Babbitt, a joiner. He will put his name on most anything presented to him with even a faint humanitarian argument. Many of the outfits he has endorsed were merely odd. But some were undeniably Communist fronts, and they have got him in trouble...
Abundant Talent. From such sales, KQED gets one-third of its total income of about $350,000 yearly. The secret is San Francisco's abundant talent. From two dozen nearby colleges and universities have come famed performers: Nobel Prizewinning Chemists Glenn T. Seaborg and Linus Pauling, Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller, Chemist Joel Hildebrand, Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa, Zen Master Alan Watts. Started on a shoestring six years ago (TIME, June 16, 1956), KQED has been able to turn out 19 talent-laden series, which were promptly snapped up by its hungry sister stations...
MONTEREY, Calif. Jan. 31--Dr. Linus Pauling, 59-year-old Nobel prize-winning chemist, was rescued unharmed Sunday from a treacherous ledge on which he had been trapped for nearly 24 hours...
...professor at the University since 1935, he will fill a position held in the past by such American notables as Felix Frankfurter, Wallace Notestein, and Linus Pauling...