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...genetic consequence, reports Physicist John R. Platt in the University of Chicago magazine Context, is a zooming output of high-IQ children. "These marriages are now producing five or ten times the total number of 150s, for example, that we would get from perfectly random marriages in the normal population," where IQ averages...
...communications companies, six from the public, and three named by the President. Comsat will be run by its $125,000-a-year chairman and chief executive officer, Leo D. Welch, 65, former Jersey Standard chairman, and its $80,000-a-year president, Dr. Joseph V. Charyk, 43, a brilliant physicist and former Air Force under secretary...
...December, 1962, on an icy highway outside Moscow, a light car crashed into a truck, and Russia's leading physicist was pulled from the wreckage all but dead. His body was crushed from head to thigh; he was in a deep coma for seven weeks and clinically "died" four times in a single week. Miraculously he survived. And last week word came from Moscow that Lev Davidovich Landau, 56, had finally been released from the Neurosurgery Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. But the Nobel Prizewinner (it was awarded to him ten months after the accident) still appears...
LOOKING FOR THE GENERAL, by Warren Miller. In this wild but curiously trenchant metaphysical farce, a young nuclear physicist decides that men from another planet will redeem the earth...
Once a strong voice in favor of tightly guarding U.S. scientific secrets, Physicist Edward Teller, 56, now thinks everyone should be let in on most classified information. Why? "I am pretty well convinced that the Russians have all our secrets," the father of the H-bomb told a House committee on U.S. research, "and I am even afraid they have the secrets we are going to discover in the next two years." That being the case, the only ones in the dark on most data are "our industry and our citizens." The present criterion for releasing news of an important...