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...such brash young men at England's Cambridge University set out for an assault on cosmology's castle. Fred Hoyle, 22, and Raymond Arthur Lyttleton, 25, of St. John's College, earned their livings (as they still do) by teaching mathematics to Cambridge undergraduates. After hours they planned their campaigns to explain the universe-not just the stars and the galaxies, but the whole vast mechanism, compounded of space and time, of mass and energy, which produces the "objects" seen by telescopes, as well as that oddity, the earth, and its curious inhabitant...
Last week an extraordinary theory of the universe, developed chiefly by the Hoyle & Lyttleton team, ranked as a leading conversation piece in British intellectual circles. It was more than that; broadcast by radio, spread by a bestselling book,* debated in learned societies, it was bidding for a place among Britain's most striking contributions to modern scientific philosophy. It was, of course, also being attacked. Nothing so daring had appeared in the field of cosmology since the early '30s, when Sir James Jeans and Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington led man's imagination out among the "island universes...
Then Morrison got down to politics: by attempting to exercise the power of veto over the government, Churchill was aiming to force a coalition on the Labor Party. Up jumped Tory Oliver Lyttleton: "We do not want it." Retorted Morrison: "Do not . . . make any mistake. Half the jokers . . . from that Front Bench want a coalition...
...Since the beginning of 1940, said Minister of Production Oliver Lyttleton, British war production has been increased five and a half times...
...count the convertible machines. His new proposal was that when G.M., Ford and Chrysler got big orders for identical 30-ton tanks, the three should pool their facilities and subcontract to each other. This is a method of simplifying production which many industries (under the name of the Lyttleton plan) have been forced to in Britain. But the year closed before anyone knew whether Pearl Harbor was the U.S.'s Dunkirk...