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...final years Einstein was an outspoken foe of McCarthyism, which he felt was an echo of the turbulent events that had preceded the downfall of Germany's Weimar Republic. He urged intellectuals to defy what he considered congressional inquisitions, even at the risk of "jail and economic ruin." He was widely denounced, and Senator Joseph McCarthy called him "an enemy of America." In his last public act, Einstein joined Bertrand Russell and other scholars in a desperate plea for a ban on all warfare...
...easy to see why Einstein aroused ire. Revolutionary in nature, his ideas about space and time collided directly with ancient prejudices and seemed to contradict everyday experience. In ad dition, there were his outspoken antinationalism and, ironically in light of his own lack of belief in formal religion, the fact that he was a Jew. But criticism abroad was muted compared with that in Germany, where Jews were being made the scapegoats for loss of the war and Einstein's pacifism was bitterly remembered. Einstein and his "Jewish physics" became the object of increasingly scurrilous denunciations. Fellow German scientists turned...
...problem children, alcohol, a taste for money (as someone told me, "The Carters are not a bit worse than the Kennedys; the Kennedys just have more cashmere sweaters"). No, the deep shifts sensed and regretted by natives are attributable not to one local boy but to history. The outspoken Carters may have speeded ventilation; but the bleeding holes in the oldest foundations are the same holes rammed everywhere in America by swelling population, the spread of wealth, racial change, and an active central Government. Round every hole, the citizens of Plains see what we all see-the quick dissolution...
...Octavio Ortiz Luna and four youths, and arrested the rest. The military government of President General Carlos Humberto Romero said the church house was a guerrilla base. At a Requiem Mass last week, activist Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, no kin to the Salvadoran dictator and his most outspoken foe, denounced the government accusations as "lies...
Volvo Boss Pehr Gyllenhammar is justifiably proud of his company's solidly engineered cars, but his business deals seem not to be put together so well. The energetic and outspoken Gyllenhammar has been searching for ways to boost sales, but his efforts have resulted so far in little more than wheel spinning. Plans to build an assembly plant in the U.S. and to merge with archcompetitor Saab-Scania have both had to be given up for one reason or another. Last week Gyllenhammar got his biggest setback yet; opposition by Volvo shareholders forced him to scrap a plan...