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Neutrinos, says Dr. Chiu, are the ashes of nuclear fires. According to Italian-born Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo,* they may also be the original stuff of the universe. Somehow they turned into stars. But as the stars burned, they turned into neutrinos again. Ashes to ashes, says the Book of Common Prayer. "Neutrinos to neutrinos," says Dr. Chiu...
Prince & Pugilist. Drawn by the deep, the elite free divers range from Lord Louis Mountbatten and his royal nephew Prince Philip to Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson, from Russian Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo to Gary Cooper and U.S. Rocketeer Wernher von Braun...
...Russian scientists and scholars, including two Americans: Nobel prizewinning Caltech Chemist Linus Pauling, 57, vociferous foe of nuclear testing, and Biophysicist Detlev W. Bronk, three-term president of the National Academy of Sciences, former president of Johns Hopkins University. Named a corresponding member: brilliant, furtive Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, 44, who fled to the U.S.S.R. from Great Britain in 1950 with a vast knowledge of A-bomb research...
...weapons. The Atomic Energy Act of 1946, the nation's first legislative pronouncement on the problems of nuclear control prohibited the resident from sharing nuclear secrets with other nations. Public hostility only deepened in the next few years with the discovery that the British scientists Fuchs, Nunn May, and Pontecorvo had successfully spied for the Russians...
...South is to be criticized, it must be criticized intelligently--that is selectively. To the person being attacked the least exaggeration or misstatement obviates the entire argument. When someone like McCarthy talks about "such atom spies as Fuchs, Pontecorvo, and Oppenheimer," we not only classify McCarthy as a liar or boob for so libeling Oppenheimer, but tend to forge that the other two really were atom spies. Similarly, the grouping of "such Mississippi stalwarts as Bibo, Rankin, and Fielding Wright" makes the average Southerner think that not only is all Northern criticism without basis in fact, but that Bilbo...