Word: polanyi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MICHAEL POLANYI...
...detractors. In the past, critics of Smith have only had to point to his autobiographical book of True Travels, a tangle of yarns as wild and incredible as any medieval romance. Author Smith offers strong evidence, culled from 17th century Hungarian records by his associate, Dr. Laura Polanyi Striker, that even the tallest of John's tales were probably true, and that he was, in fact, not just in fancy, one of the greatest of the Elizabethan adventurers...
...McClam said, "I believe that as a matter of public interest and in justice to Professor Polanyi as well as to the many other notable people involved, the State Department must give specific reasons for its actions. . . Otherwise, how can one know whether to criticize the State Department or the law or whether indeed there is even a basis for such criticism. So far two letters and one telegram to Dean Acheson are un-answered...
This month's Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists devotes much of its issue to a discussion of the Polanyi case. In it Percy W. Bridgman, Higgins University Professor, phrases a defense of Polanyi...
...Polanyi thinks that the State Department might have refused him because of the two contacts he had with pro-Russian groups, both at a time when he was attacking Soviet scientific method. The Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR approached him in 1940. This was just after Arthur Koestler had dedicated his anti-communist. "The Yogi and the Commissar" to Polanyi. Polanyi never took part in the group's activities, and claims his sole purpose in joining was to use translations of Russian works which the group could procure for him. He said the society was not pre communist...