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...that thinks he's a dancing ham; his "Suppertime" threatens to steal the show, but the larceny is foiled by the full cast's elaborate "Book Report." Bobbie Hendricks as Patty and Patty Low as Lucy turn in competent performances. David Frutkoff is terrific as the blanket-wielding Linus, but why did he throw in those in-joke one-liners to his buddies in the audience? Ken Getz as Schroeder, the introverted disciple of Beethoven, logically doubles as a pianist in the show's five-piece orchestra...
Wrong Yale. The lock was named after Linus Yale Jr., who invented...
Many of the past Nobel winners who made the trip to Oslo were outraged at the Kremlin's treatment of Sakharov. Linus Pauling, the 1954 winner in chemistry who lost his U.S. passport for a while in 1951 when he was under investigation for alleged Communist activities, disclosed that he had signed a cable to the Soviet leaders asking that they change their decision about Sakharov. Said he: "I feel people should be allowed to travel...
...agents worked in cooperation with top U.S. postal officials to open, scan and photograph the letters. Anyone whose name was on a "watch list" had his mail opened if it was sent to or came from the Soviet Union. The committee revealed three names on the eclectic list: Biologist Linus Pauling, the left-leaning Nobel laureate; Labor Leader Victor Reuther; and John Steinbeck, the late novelist...
...fact, the poll showed that a great many people who have strong opinions about "the scientific community" today are not really familiar with it. Of the 20 scientists most frequently mentioned by name in responses to the survey, only seven are living. Among them: Astronomer Fred Hoyle, Chemist Linus Pauling and Physicist John Taylor. The rest included such figures from the myth-laden past as Archimedes, Galileo, Marie Curie, Darwin and Einstein...