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Back home at Newton High School, an understanding teacher decided that if Bobby Morse wanted to show off so much he should produce, direct and star in a school production of Walter Kerr's Sing Out Sweet Land. The show was good, his grades improved noticeably, and he decided to become an actor. The decision was also a kind of revelation for young Bobby: "It explained why I was always behaving like a brat...
...apricot picker, then moved on to the University of California at Berkeley for graduate work. He won his Ph.D. in chemistry with a learned thesis: The Inelastic Scattering of Fast Neutrons. After graduation he stayed on at Berkeley, went happily into the laboratory of the late great chemist, Gilbert Newton Lewis, as an assistant. A popular teacher, Seaborg advanced swiftly up the academic ladder, finally becoming chancellor of the university in 1958. At the same time, he was a leading figure in the university's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory: he served for 13 years as its pioneering director of nuclear...
...technology the liberator of our resources rather than a ravenous consumer. We must recognize the power and value of technical simplicity as distinguished from the complexity that we too often regard as sophistication. We have tended to ignore something that the best Paris dress designers-and Sir Isaac Newton-never forgot: the ultimate of sophistication is simplicity itself...
Other members of the new board are Matthew Rubin '62, of Quincy House and Newton, vice-president; David E. Levy '63, of Quincy House and Verons, N.J., treasurer; and Robert C. Channon '62, of Quincy House and Riverdale...
...Hayakawa damns advertising as "venal poetry," and Historian Arnold Toynbee contends that it is the unholy idol of materialism (TIME, Sept. 22). Some of the most articulate critics occupy influential jobs in Government, from U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow, who has lambasted TV's "many screaming, cajoling and offending commercials...