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...Mountain View, Calif, where Correspondent John Wilhelm reported on the progress of the first missile ever scheduled to leave the solar system. "During high school years," Wilhelm says, "T used to haul an antique, three-inch brass reflector telescope through the attic to the roof of our St. Petersburg, Fla., home to look at Jupiter and its satellites, rings of Saturn and other celestialities." Although he was turned down for summer employment at Princeton's observatory after being asked one question - about his calculus grades - Wilhelm later became TIME'S science correspondent in Washington...
...When she refused to tell a Pasco County, Fla., judge where she got information for a story on a grand-jury proceeding, St. Petersburg Times Reporter Lucy Ware Morgan was sentenced to five months in jail (TIME, Nov. 26). The Times's lawyers then appealed, arguing, among other things, that Mrs. Morgan's refusal to name sources might be considered an act of contempt only if she balked before the grand jury in question. Quick to oblige, State Attorney James T. Russell hauled Mrs. Morgan before the grand jury and again demanded her sources. She again declined...
...JACQUELINE W. HILLENBRAND St. Petersburg...
Journalists still face imprisonment for refusing to name their sources. St Petersburg Times Reporter Lucy Ware Morgan has been sentenced to five months in jail unless she tells a Pasco County judge where she got her information for a story on a grand jury that had decided not to issue any indictments. An appeal is pending, and Times Editor Eugene Patterson is attempting to go to jail in his reporter's place. Patterson may get half his wish. The judge is considering whether the editor exposed himself to contempt charges when he ordered Mrs. Morgan not to name...
Born in St. Petersburg in 1906, Leontief studied at the University of Leningrad before his family fled Communism. He earned a doctorate in economics at the University of Berlin, and in 1931 joined the faculty at Harvard. Among his students in 1935 was Paul Samuelson, the M.I.T. professor who won the second Nobel economics prize in 1970. Besides Leontief and Samuelson, Harvard's Simon Kuznets-also a Russian émigré-won the award in 1971, and Harvard's Kenneth J. Arrow shared it in 1972. Cracked Leontief: "Do you think there should be an antitrust investigation...