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Died. Archibald Henderson, 86, University of North Carolina mathematician, official biographer of George Bernard Shaw, who was a crony of Mark Twain's and studied relativity with Einstein before asking in 1904 to become Shaw's biographer, so impressed The Beard with his erudition (G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum") that he produced not one but three full-scale lives of the Methuselan playwright; of a heart ailment; in Chapel Hill...
...Others were Mathematician John von Neumann, Physicist Hans Bethe, Aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman...
...love for foreign cities, he asks "and how came it that pleasure is so intertwined, so at home with Necessity?" Describing a mosque, he "sensed with deep joy the fusion of two great qualities: ecstasy and precision... For all this decoration is the dream of a master mathematician. As the line progresses and unwinds, it becomes the abstract expression--the distillation of all plants, all animals, and all thoughts...
...intellectual, leftist New Statesman, Christine Keeler and Marilyn ("Mandy") Rice-Davies were being analyzed in the somewhat different role as standard bearers of the proletariat. "Here was a section of working-class girls being sold as instruments to satisfy the sexual needs of the upper class," wrote Mathematician Hyman Levy, "while at the same time, there were no upper-class girls being recruited to satisfy the sexual needs of the working class." Levy was ironically seconded by Teacher M. L. Swan: "With a few fortunate exceptions-gamekeepers and other comrades who have infiltrated the enemy's camp...
...born in Seattle, the son of a French mother and a British father with a Dutch name. He majored in economics at Stanford, went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and, as a lanky 6-foot 4-incher, rowed No. 4 on the New College crew. As a mathematician and economist he spent four years with California's think factory, the Rand Corp., just pondering military strategy. And then, in 1960, he went to the Pentagon...