Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to an interviewer in 1948. Last week Oppenheimer's life-not merely the pros & cons of the security risk charges against him, but the whole development of his mind and character-became a matter of interest, more than ever before, to those who shared with him an uneasy habitation of the planet...
Robert Oppenheimer continued his studies in the U.S. and abroad. When he returned from Europe in 1929, already recognized as a physicist of great promise, he accepted concurrent appointments at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the University of California in Berkeley. He knew he did not want to live in New York City, holding it to be not typically American. He loved the West, its distances and its solitudes. He loved to ride horseback in the desert...
...Washington correspondents, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's troubles with the Atomic Energy Commission (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had been no secret. For more than four months, capital newsmen had been picking up bits of the story, but no one could nail it all down. New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James B. Reston went to work to do so. Instead of trying to run it down through Government bureaus, "Scotty" Reston went directly to the one man who was sure to know, Oppenheimer himself...
...newspapers all over the U.S. played up two Page One news stories, both from a "high Administration official." One story reported that he said the U.S. may throw troops into Indo-China if the French pull out, while the other quoted the anonymous official's opinion that Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer "is a loyal American" and should not be barred from Government work if he is not a security risk (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Administration has demonstrated that the best way to make policy is to make it off the cuff. Vice President Nixon, speaking to a meeting of newspaper editors, first advocated the use of American troops in Indo-China, then said that on the basis of existing evidence, he considered physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer "a loyal American." Only a short time before, Secretary of Defense Wilson announced, in effect, that even if Oppenheimer's name were cleared, he still should not be allowed back in Government employ...