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Lilienthal found his legacy tied to some annoying problems. Perhaps the most serious was the balancing of military security against the release of scientific information. Even after the release of the Smyth report, a publicly available how-to-do-it manual on the breeding and use of atomic energy--originally authorized by the Army, military officials in the atomic weapons program wanted the AEC to classify almost all atomic information. They also wanted to weed out all scientists not meeting rigorous security standards. At the same time, some very able men were quitting their jobs under the AEC because they...
Pigs & Cigarettes. Born in Russia of a Huguenot family, Fabergé had probably studied goldsmithing in Paris, but there was no evidence that he had done a lick of manual work on any of the works on exhibition. His genius was in his head and active enough to keep 700 artisans, mostly Finns, busy in his St. Petersburg workrooms. The imperial court was not Fabergé's only customer: every millionaire in Russia clamored for his wondrous candlesticks and parasol handles. In time he produced enameled pigs for the court of King Chulalongkorn of Siam, Buddhas and bowls...
Later, kindly father Hutchins became president of Kentucky's Berea College, but by that time young Robert had gone on to Yale. In 1917 he had joined the Army ("The manual of arms is not a great book"), won the Italian Croce di Guerra for being "poisoned by a can of sardines," then enrolled in the Yale Law School ("No case book is a great book"). At 24 he was secretary of Yale University, at 26 a lecturer at Yale Law School, at 28 a full professor and dean...
...scrolls in the U.S. also include the complete Book of Isaiah, a commentary on the Book of Habbakuk, and a manual of discipline for a minor Jewish sect. Scholars predict that complete analysis and translation of the scrolls will take many years. In order that experts all over the world may take part in this interpretive work, detailed photographs of the ancient scrolls so far unrolled have been made available by the American School of Oriental Studies...
...states: "I am a miner"-but the tapering, lily-white hand that he so proudly displays in your picture seems to belie the fact that he has ever done a day's manual labor in his life...