Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tail of the problem: "The common external tangent of two tangent circles of radii 8 inches and 2 inches is - ." Fortunately, the class secretary, 15-year-old Johanna Mankiewicz, had an inspiration. All the class had to do, she decided, was to write a letter to the Most Famous Physicist in the World...
Apparently, it wasn't too hard for the Famous Physicist, for he replied by return airmail, though he forgot to put a 6? stamp on the envelope. In any case, Johanna got his letter, with a diagram* and instructions on how to do the problem. The Physicist's diagram merely suggested that a right triangle can be formed from 1) the line of centers, 2) a line parallel to the common tangent and running through the center of the smaller circle, and 3) the radius of the larger circle. The length of the tangent can then be found...
...chose physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 of Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study, Vannevar Bush of the Atomic Energy Commission, John Dickey, President of Dartmouth College and Allen W. Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency for the task. These in turn picked Bundy...
...Communists. Meanwhile, the Big Lie is spread with undiminished intensity by Russian and Chinese press and radio, by such native-son instruments as New York's Daily Worker and the West Coast's Daily People's, by France's Humanite and its Communist-Physicist Frederic Joliot-Curie...
...Atomic City (Paramount) is a neat little B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies. The fun begins when foreign agents kidnap a nuclear physicist's son and hold him for a ransom in atomic formulas. The cops & robbers story is an old formula itself, but the tightly knit screenplay bristles with tingling action and intriguing mechanical devices used by the FBI operatives to track down the criminals: car-to-car telephones, kinescope, television cameras with zoom lenses...