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SLAC's director, Stanford Physicist Wolfgang Panofsky, 47, a refugee from Nazi Germany, grants that he is unable to predict what applications-if any-its discoveries will have, and he frankly admits that he is the proud boss of "the world's largest impractical machine...
...premise is finally revealed: without telling Andrews, physicist Newman plans to stage a mock defection to East Berlin to pry a formula from the brain of a Communist physicist, a formula necessary for the completion of Newman's own missile project. It becomes apparent that Hitchcock will use the nightmare world of East Berlin to test the lovers. Like many of his recent films, Torn Curtain is essentially a romantic character study, a realization that adds to the excellence of the first half of the film...
Arnold Toynbee, inarticulate and somber, lunching daily on one banana and two apples. Albert Einstein, vainly seeking one more climactic insight, trudging home, declining rides, saying, "I must walk. I must walk." Physicist Paul A. M. Dirac, coatless in the coldest weather, striding the grounds, muffler flying. Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, while sipping tea in the faculty lounge, writing non-existent equations on an imaginary blackboard, then rubbing them out with an equally imaginary eraser...
...just moments away from some momentous discovery, the small Institute staff solicitously seeks to answer every reasonable human need. Because Mathematician Kurt Goedel is acutely sensitive to heat and cold, the temperature variations in his office were carefully charted for a month before he took occupancy. When Physicist Dirac's thoughtful walks were disturbed by a trailing dog, the staff sniffed out its owners, asked them to keep it at home. Even the members' own children are banned from the Institute's eight small, mostly red brick buildings, can run and shout only in the nearby faculty...
British Author-Physicist C. P. Snow; John Walker, Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington; Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; Henry Ford II. While, in its beginning days in book publishing, Time Inc. brought out volumes that were in large measure derived from articles that had appeared in the magazines, the texts and nearly all of the photographs in all TIME-LIFE BOOKS titles...