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...idea of a living memorial opens unlimited vistas to monument-minded Americans. What about installing a young novelist in William Faulkner's house in Oxford, Miss.? A young architect in Frank Lloyd Wright's house in Oak Park, Ill.? A young physicist in Albert Einstein's house in Princeton, N.J.? A young semanticist in Casey Stengel's house in Glendale, Calif...
Russia's leading dissident, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, last week called upon the Kremlin to grant amnesty to political prisoners, as a good-will gesture connected with the Brezhnev-constitution celebrations. Any such amnesty seems unlikely. Instead, Soviet authorities have stepped up their persecution of human rights activists. Anatoli Shcharansky, a leading dissident, was charged with treason. Along with a number of other Jews, he has been accused of working for CIA agents disguised as U.S. diplomats and journalists. American officials have sharply denied the charge. Fearing that a sensational show trial is in preparation, the U.S. State Department expressed...
John A. Wheeler, LL.D., nuclear physicist who helped to develop the first general theory of nuclear fission...
Nonetheless, what sets the book apart from other current bestsellers is its eerie believability. Out of reams of newspaper and magazine clippings, chats with former banking cronies, Middle East experts and even a nuclear physicist, Erdman has fashioned a grisly tale of international power politics and financial double-dealing that bring on a global economic calamity...
Worthy Goal. Many obstacles remain before that day arrives. Some experts feel that even after break-even, the engineering of practical power plants will be difficult and their construction expensive. Admits Lawrence Livermore Physicist John Emmett: "No one is saying it will be cheap." Still, given the seriousness of the energy crisis, that is no reason to sidetrack fusion research in favor of programs promising quicker payoffs. "Shortrange solutions last a short time," warns Princeton Physicist Melvin Gottlieb. "Longterm solutions take decades to achieve...