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More Passion than Poise. Celebrities abounded. To Aspen came Dr. Jonas Salk, Senator-elect Charles Percy, Adam ("Batman") West, and Defense Secretary McNamara, guest of William Janss, owner of Sun Valley and the power be hind the new Snowmass-at-Aspen ski resort being built eight miles away. Not that devotees of Vail were the slightest bit impressed. "Aspen? Oh, yes, that's a tree, isn't it?" they were saying. Be sides, they had a few names of their own: New York's Mayor John Lind say, Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter, IBM Chairman Tom Watson...
...been acknowledged, only Einstein among the pure scientists held a place in the U.S. consciousness until World War II. Today the roster would be long, studded with such names as Teller, Oppenheimer and Waksman. Another set of latter-day heroes are physicians, whose list would include Drs. Fleming, DeBakey, Salk and Paul Dudley White. Among businessmen, only Henry Ford has achieved anything like heroic dimensions, although such magnates as Astor and Carnegie were heroes to their day. The values of commerce, no matter how much they may accomplish, are the antithesis of the traditional values of glory...
Jalousies & A Happy Dungeon. Most recently built of Kahn's inventory (see opposite page) is his Salk Institute for Biological Studies, overlooking the Pacific palisades in La Jolla, Calif. Selected by Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, Kahn designed the presently half-occupied institute as two yoked rectangular blocks facing seaward. Each block is composed of flexible laboratory spaces, spanned by floor-tall Vierendeel trusses, which, like punched-out beams, permit the tons of laboratory plumbing to pass through. Separated from the labs by stairways and passageways that serve as open terraces for outdoor seminars...
Dirty Smock. Back in England, she induced physicians to attempt the Turkish practice of preventing smallpox by inoculation, and the ensuing controversy made her famous as the Jonas Salk of the 18th century. She also set up a salon frequented by such famous wits as Congreve, Pope, Steele, Fielding, Voltaire-and Lady Mary. Once, when somebody wondered why Prime Minister Robert Walpole had appointed a dolt as his Secretary of State, Lady Mary explained: "Oh, if I came suddenly to a great fortune and set up my coach, I should like to show it to the neighbouring village...
With the help of medicine, the human organism has adapted to a continually changing environment, "but now," added Dr. Salk, "man is bringing vast and rapid changes within his environment, and is producing an effect in which it is man, not nature, who exerts a dominant influence on the future course of his evolution." From fallout to new and drug-resistant strains of bacteria, not all that influence is beneficial. Medicine of the future will require "a basic science that will suggest ways to deal much more with man as a whole in his social situation...