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...scientific laboratory. A rare marriage of scientific talent and hard-headed business know-how, General Dynamics employs one scientist for every five workers, has a roster of consultants that includes such greats as Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, and Dr. Theodore von Karman, Caltech's brilliant mathematician and aerodynamicist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Builder of the Atlas | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...acquaintance, "she stationed her age at a permanent 75." She reads a novel a day, still manages to take a personal interest in handsome young writers. Madame Simone is haughtily and heartily despised by the "Blue" faction (named for the hue of its blood), led by a scientist, mathematician and relative youngster, the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, 62. An oldtime suffragette and notorious pincher of sous (says a fellow juror: "She dresses in a splendid mink coat lined with rayon"), the Duchesse blazed in protest when her arch-antagonist grandly announced that she would accept no other Femina choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hatpins & the Femina | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Brooks cited the increasing demand for men with very broad mathematical training primarily interested in the application of mathematics as a main reason for initiating a new program. "The applied mathematician tends to be a Jack-of-all-trades," he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Committee on Applied Math Expects to Attract Top Students | 12/11/1957 | See Source »

Last week Fehr and Pack had every reason to believe that they had a hit. From everyone from M.I.T. Mathematician W. T. Martin ("an imaginative presentation") to U.S. Education Commissioner Lawrence G. Derthick ("one of the best current films on mathematics"), the compliments poured in. But Professor Fehr and Producer Pack had one word of warning. The series is in no way meant to be a "course" in mathematics, but "a kind of mathematical hors d'oeuvre, an appetizer, a stimulant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Appetizer | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...published highly technical papers now being used at Oak Ridge. Speedily the red-faced Army announced that it would reassign Smut to the Weapons Research Branch of the Chemical Warfare Laboratories at the Army Chemical Center, Maryland. Instead of 711 Clerk-Typist, Shult will now be tagged as 013 Mathematician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Genius & the Army | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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