Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling of the California Institute of Technology presented the petition to United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold Monday. The document expressed the hope that since only three nations have the bomb, "an agreement for... control is feasible...
This year, as usual, many of you nominated your own candidates (see LETTERS). Among the nominees: Billy Graham, Governor Faubus, Laika, Jonas Salk, President Eisenhower, Bert and Harry Piel, Khrushchev, Nobel Prizewinner Lester Pearson, Mike Todd and two, symbolic nominees, the scientist and the American Negro...
...Physicist Hofstadter did turn up some fundamental knowledge about the neutron that could only please his audience: the radius of the neutron is about 7 X 10 -14 centimeters, or roughly one 40,000,000,000,000th of an inch. Cried Columbia's Nobel Prizewinner Dr. I. I. Rabi: "Hofstadter has found the size of the primary building block of ourselves and our environment, the primordial particle. It is a finding of immense interest, importance, and even beauty...
Lester Pearson, Canadian ex-External Affairs chief and Nobel Peace Prizewinner: "No progress will be made if one side merely shouts 'coexistence' . . . while the other replies 'no appeasement' . . . Our policy and diplomacy is becoming as rigid and defensive as the trench warfare of 40 years ago . . ." There ought to be "frank, serious and complete exchanges of views-especially between Moscow and Washington-through diplomatic and political channels...
PLATERO AND I, by Juan Ramón Jiménez. One of the best-loved books of the Spanish-speaking world, by the 1956 Nobel Prizewinner-138 prose poems about life and death in the author's home town in Spain. The poems are addressed to the narrator's companion, a donkey, with bittersweet and sensuous grace and delicacy...