Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French Nuclear Physicist Joliot-Curie led off with an exhibition of how to face in two directions at once. In one breath he told the council that U.S. troops in Europe and Korea should go back home where they came from. In the next, he implored the rest of the world to "help the American people out of the isolation in which they are being kept." But it was Ringmaster Stalin's favorite literary gymnast, Author Ilya Ehrenburg, who brought down the house with a faultless demonstration of how to say one thing while meaning another...
...pennies, votes and tears of the masses). In 1947 French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, who has been undergoing "medical treatment" in the Soviet Union for the past 17 months, plumped for Approach No. 2. His faithful followers exalted the dove, and sheltered behind such intellectual "fronts" as Physicist Joliot-Curie's "Partisans of Peace...
...others: Professor Alan Nunn May, convicted in 1946 as a member of Canada's atomic spy ring; Physicist Klaus Fuchs, now serving a 14-year sentence for selling atomic secrets to Russia; Cosmic-Ray Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, who fled, presumably for Moscow, in 1930. Two other Foreign Office men, Diplomats Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess, who disappeared last year and have not been heard of since, are presumed to have fled beyond the Iron Curtain...
Cornell's Peter Debye, 68, Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist, author of the Debye theory of the specific heat of solids. Born in The Netherlands, Debye succeeded Einstein as professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich, served as director of Berlin's Max Planck Institute until the Nazis drove him out ("Stay at home and occupy yourself by writing a book," they told him), in 1940 finally made his way to Cornell. There, perpetually wreathed in cigar smoke, he pioneered in high polymer research, taught Cornellmen their chemistry, and each year managed to make them...
...Probably a rather baffling diagram for Johanna. Instead of drawing the tangent circles the problem called for, the Physicist spread his circles apart, introduced a third circle with a radius equal to the difference between the radii of the original...