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When the judges were through rechecking the entries, there was no question about their choices. Out of 25,039 high school contestants, the two top prizes in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search went last week to a pair of precocious seniors from Newton (Mass.) High School. For his $121 cyclotron that can smash atoms, Reinier Beeuwkes III, 17, won the first prize, a $7,500 scholarship. For his prop-driven flying platform, Yugoslav-born Dushan Mitrovich, 18, won the second prize, a $6,000 scholarship...
Reinier, the son of the director of materiel research at the Watertown Arsenal, and Dushan, the son of an aeronautical engineer with Avco Research Laboratories, are the latest products of the top-notch program of Dr. Albert E. Navez, head of the science department at Newton High School since 1949. Belgian-born Navez, 59, who is also Belgian consul in Boston, starts grooming likely science prospects in junior high school. Says Teacher Navez of Reinier and Dushan: "To them, science is an adventure...
...discovered a new world-Pope, Swift and the Duchess of Marlborough. He was at home in the universe of Newtonian mathematics and adored everything English. Three years later he went back to France a dedicated Newtonian ("It is he." says Author Mitford, "who preserved for us the story of Newton and the apple") and a respectful admirer of "an English author who lived 150 years ago called Shakespeare ... He was quite mad, but wrote some admirable things." Back in Paris, Voltaire fell plump into the arms of the most remarkable woman in France...
...fluent knowledge of Latin, Italian and English -not Spanish, because someone had told her that "the only book in that language was frivolous," i.e., Don Quixote. Her scientific and mathematical knowledge surpassed Voltaire's. Together, they were destined to change intellectual history, Voltaire by championing Newton in France, Emilie by helping to open the border to the philosophy of Germany's Leibnitz. Voltaire was high-strung, always ailing, always in hot water with the authorities; Emilie was "strong as an ox" and influential at court: the powerful Due de Richelieu had been her lover. She and Voltaire wrote...
Cloud 7 (by Max Wilk) is a comedy about Newton Reece (Ralph Meeker), 39, married, commuter, on the rise with United Foods, who one day, tired of it all, throws up his job. He goes home to Connecticut with no future plans beyond Do-It-Yourselfing in a chair and making love to his wife (Martha Scott) in the daytime. He also tries his hand at baking brownies, urges a drab, neglected neighbor's wife to turn slinky, encourages a job-weary laundryman to rebel, gets a lady writer to turn soulful. When the boss (amusingly played by John...