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Among the nation's scientists and technicians, neither Julius Rosenberg nor Morton Sobell is a conspicuous man. There are thousands like them; their names are unknown. Intense, spectacled, nondescript, they carry out the tedious testing of others' ideas, the intricate mechanical drudgery of the laboratory and the industrial plant. But last week Rosenberg, an electrical engineer, and Sobell, an electronics expert-two faceless men out of faceless thousands-were suddenly projected from anonymity into the hot glare of public scrutiny. They went on trial for a farflung, sustained conspiracy to steal the U.S.'s most vital military...
Seated in Manhattan's federal courthouse, in the same courtroom where the eleven Communist leaders were brought to book, Defendant Sobell, 33, nervously scrubbed his fingers along his chin as the Government began its case. Tall and pale, Julius Rosenberg, 33, drummed on the counsel table; his wife, Mrs. Ethel Green-glass Rosenberg, indicted with them as a fellow conspirator, was the calmest. These three, the Government charged, were part of the spy transmission belt for which Physicist Klaus Fuchs (see SCIENCE) was a prime source and Chemist Harry Gold a key courier. The Russian contact for the ring...
Friends & Relatives. The conspirators, said the Government, built their belt with friends, college chums and relatives. First the jury heard the college chum. Max Elitcher, a C.C.N.Y. classmate of both Sobell's and Rosenberg's, told how Sobell had recruited him into the Communist party in 1939, when both were working in the Navy's Ordnance Bureau, how Rosenberg and Sobell on various occasions had tried to get him to steal information on projects he worked on. But he insisted he had never actually delivered any information to them himself...
...relative had. Big, beefy David Greenglass, an ex-Army sergeant, was Mrs. Rosenberg's brother. He had been indicted along with the others, and had pleaded guilty. As a machinist, he said, he was assigned by the Army to Los Alamos' Manhattan Project in 1944, where he worked in the machine shop turning out apparatus from sketches drawn up by the scientists. In a voice that often dropped away to a whisper, Greenglass testified that he had no idea what he was working on until his wife came to visit him on their wedding anniversary in November...
...Department's biggest worry has been that the Senators would tie its hands by the amendment forcing the Department to take all "available men" in the 19 to 26 bracket. Both Secretary Marshall and Assistant Secretary Anna Rosenberg had asked Congress to allow drafting of 18-year-olds and not to limit Defense authority in handling men in the 19 to 26 age group...