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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the debate-divided ranks of U.S. scientists, the stoutest advocate of continued testing is the University of California's Hungarian-born Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller, famed as "father of the H-bomb" (TIME, Nov. 18). In a newly published book,* Teller sets forth, as he sees them, the facts about radioactive fallout and the reasons for going on with nuclear tests. "Fear of what we do not know or do not understand has been with us in all ages," he writes. "Against [it] there exist two weapons: understanding and courage. Of the two, courage is more important...
Thoughtful Uncertainty. Pusey's commercials punctuated an hour-long radio show, The Case for the College. The most ambitious attempt at alumni pocket-lightening made so far, it was part of "A Program for Harvard College" (TIME. Nov. 26, 1956), Harvard's plan for raising $82,500,000 (already in the kitty: $35 million). The broadcast was coast to coast in the U.S. on CBS, and-on the theory that the sun never sets on Harvard alumni-abroad on the armed forces radio network. Radio Luxembourg, the Voice of America, and various outlets in the Orient...
...Near the Water. Bell-bottomed farce, based on William Brinkley's story about how some officers and men conducted the Navy's public relations-and their own private affairs-in the South Pacific (TIME, Nov...
Gervaise. The harrowing whole of Emile Zola's L'Assommoir is pretty much reduced to the sum of its amatory parts, in which Maria Schell is most appealing (TIME, Nov...
This poorly written book is far less fascinating reading than Compulsion, Meyer Levin's bestselling fictionalized account of the Leopold-Loeb case (TIME. Nov. 12, 1956), which made Leopold "physically sick." In its own way. though, it may be more revealing...