Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since Nunn May, under the rules of good behavior, has served his term, "it is better to release him now and see if it is possible to change him into an honest citizen than embitter him by detaining him for the full sentence. He retains his ability as a scientist, but after seven years his atomic knowledge is no longer of value...
...five children, and his father had anxious plans for each of them. Amos, the eldest, was to be a minister (he is now professor of New Testament at Chicago); Charlotte a doctor (she became a professor and poet) ; Isabel a nurse (she became a novelist); and Janet a scientist (she gave up zoology for marriage). When it came to Thornton, father Wilder had little hope: "Poor Thornton, poor Thornton," he would say, "he'll be a burden all his life...
Richardson, who won the New York critics' award, treats his role with a remarkable restraint. Ridgeway is not a scientist himself; he is a single-minded industrialist who carries scientists, designers, and pilots along in the wake of his enthusiasm. He has no sympathy with failure or timidity, and although he suffers at his son-in-law's death, one feels that he considers it a cheap price for the ultimate gain. This is a difficult part to play. Some actors might make Ridgeway a bare, two-dimensional character, since Terrence Rattigan's script alone does not delineate him sufficiently...
Colonel Tibbets remarks once, parenthetically, that although he does not approve of mass atomic destruction, it is necessary to speed the ending of the war. One of the few less somber scenes in the film (and one based on an actual incident) has Mrs. Tibbets-mistaking an atomic scientist at Wendover for a sanitary engineer and having him repair some plumbing...
TEACHERS FIRED FOR DEFENDING FREEDOM in New York schools seek employment or business opportunities. Research workers, economists, linguist, scientist, mathematicians, artist, writers, tutors, office workers. Mature, graduate degrees. Will consider employment any field offering opportunity, growth and advancement...