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...address Roosevelt publicly helping further the massive public works projects Brandeis favored so strongly Frankfurter's style was to schedule meetings with prominent leaders--using a Supreme Court office that many of his aides never knew about and to unabashedly try to persuade them. He, for instance, consulted with physicist Niels Bohr on the controversial Manhattan Project, and sought to persuade Roosevelt and Secretary of War Henry I. Stimson to disclose America's plans for the atom bomb to the Soviet Union. Only his overriding concern with maintaining the judicial propriety and his skill at perpetuating the "myth of judicial...
Isaac F. Silvera, an American experimental physicist at the University of Amsterdam, Holland, will join Harvard's Physics Department next fall, bringing to an end a search that has lasted interminently for more than five years...
...victim of student apathy and faculty and administration caution, the Foundation functions only as a string of loosely organized and--toad's--relatively inactive committees, a half-time director, and a small office in University Hall. The Foundation has sponsored two public events--a speech by a prominent Black physicist and a meeting of the Presidential appointed panel on Japanese-American internment--and published a new brochure for the Persia-Julian Black Students in Science Organization. The Foundation's 12-member Board of Associates boasts names like Alex Haley. Barbara Jordan and Beverly Sills, but two members contacted last month...
Says Stanford University Physicist and Arms Control Expert Sidney Drell, "I only hope that if we could keep the nuclear threshold high and we bought time and did not panic, we could turn off a conventional war before it went nuclear. I really can't see any way to manage a nuclear...
...long. But their handiwork survived to become the hit of the show at the 13th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston last week. As the photographs were shown to some 560 scientists, most of them Americans, oohs and aahs rose from the audience. Says University of Minnesota Physicist Robert Pepin: "There was no small amount of envy...