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Ready to go back to college after an eleven-year absence was Nuclear Physicist Frank Oppenheimer. In 1949 Oppenheimer resigned from his position as an associate professor at the University of Minnesota just before testifying to a congressional committee that he had been a card-carrying Communist for three years in the 1930s but had quit the party in disillusionment. After that Frank Oppenheimer, now 47, younger brother of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (who has had his own security-risk problems), was unable to get another university job, fell to teaching in Colorado high schools. But last week came...
...Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, 56, director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, has not worked for the Federal Government since 1954, when he was branded a "potential security risk" and discharged as a consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission. But his standing with the United Nations has apparently not suffered. Last week Oppenheimer, a prime architect of the Abomb, a conscientious objector to the H-bomb, was confirmed as the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency's official representative to the forthcoming Tenth Annual High Energy Physics Conference. The man who appointed him: the U.N. agency...
...products of Fairchild Recording Equipment Corp. have so far been too expensive to be a commercial success, but Fairchild is confident that it "will make back every nickel eventually." An early backer of Dr. Gabriel Giannini, the noted physicist, Fairchild in 1946 bought into Giannini Controls of California, a manufacturer of transducers and other sensitive flight instruments. He now owns 9% of the company, which is growing at a 25% yearly rate under Fairchild-picked President Donald Putnam...
...booming West Germany, growled Berlin Critic Friedrich Luft, imported plays pack 160 theaters nightly, "but [German] culture is dead." France's top political theorist, Raymond Aron, apologized because democracy has abandoned parliamentary rule in France, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer apologized for all the wrongs he said science has done, and U.S. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith seemed to be apologizing because the U.S. is building skyscrapers instead of schools. U.S. Novelist Mary McCarthy moaned: "Western literature is the mirror on the ceiling of the whorehouse...
Edward Teller, physicist...