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Once the hallucinations disappear, Roseland glides on to the banal triangle of a wealthy woman (Joan Copeland), a narcissistic gigolo (Christopher Walken) and an awkward naif (Geraldine Chaplin). The final number features a retired cook (Lilia Skala) who dreams of winning a dance prize before she dies. The only prize the cook deserves is one for overheating her role...
Within minutes the puzzle, like so many puzzles Van Vleck had confronted in a half-century of scientific work, was solved. Van Vleck had won the Nobel Prize for Physics, the reporter told...
...startled and asked him, 'Are you sure?' because I remembered what happened to Bridgeman," Van Vleck said yesterday. Percy W. Bridgeman, who preceded Van Vleck as Hollis Professor, once received an erroneous report of his selection for a Nobel Prize. The incident proved quite embarrassing when the Swedish Academy officially announced a different winner for that year, although Bridgeman did receive the award several years later...
...Vleck did not receive the Nobel Prize for a particular discovery, but for "highly valuable contributions" in a career that spanned three decades. He is known as the "father of modern magnetism," the first physicist to apply the theory of quantum mechanics to magnets...
...Corps." "Miss Lillian raised her boy Jimmy in a spirit of idealism mixed with the spirit of tough determination," said the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations last week in a speech before the Synagogue Council of America. The occasion was the presentation of the council's peace prize to Miss Lillian, 79. Past recipients: John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Earl Warren and Nelson Rockefeller. Why does Jimmy's mom rate such an award? Besides her efforts in India, Miss Lillian, explained Young, has lived a "constant struggle for peace amid the poverty, tension and differences...