Word: pugwash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Cyrus S. Eaton, 95, self-made multimillionaire industrialist who, while championing U.S. capitalism, advocated closer ties with Communist nations in the interest of world peace; in Northfield, Ohio. Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Eaton was dissuaded from becoming a Baptist minister by Oil Magnate John D. Rockefeller Sr., who recognized his knack for business. Eaton amassed a fortune in power companies, steel and rubber concerns. After Hiroshima his chief interest became saving "capitalism and all mankind from nuclear annihilation." He conducted a series of "Pugwash Conferences" between Western and Communist intellectuals, promoted trade with Eastern bloc countries...
...Pugwash Group, an unofficial international organization, is composed of scientists and specialists in international...
Harvey Brooks, McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Abram J. Chayes '43, professor of Law and George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, are members of the Canadian-American Pugwash Group that issued the declaration asking nations to ban all underground testing...
...fortunes in steel, railroads and rubber over the years, he also worked for détente between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: traveling behind the Iron Curtain, playing host to Russian leaders when they visited the U.S., proposing trade deals and in 1957 assembling at his original home in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, one of the first international scientific conferences to discuss the dangers of nuclear disaster. Last week, when Eaton turned 90, he received congratulatory telegrams from President Podgorny, Premier Kosygin and Party Leader Brezhnev, as well as Chicago's Mayor Daley, Senator William Fulbright and Sir Julian Huxley...