Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Argentine government made a cagily indirect answer last week to reports that Juan Perón had arrested Ronald Richter, his "atomic scientist" (TIME, May 28). Newspapers announced that Professor Richter and his laboratory associates would observe a national holiday by working 24 hours straight...
...behavior of matter under stress may help the scientist in understanding the nature of the earth's crust...
Tribuna's report, datelined Buenos Aires, said that Dr. Ronald Richter, the former Austrian scientist, was arrested after technical experts of the Argentine army had discovered that Richter "was not sufficiently advanced as a physicist" to achieve the atomic release Perón had claimed. Three experts informed Perón that Richter, in their opinion, was nothing more than a "colossal bluff...
...column of comment on the story, Editor Lacerda wrote: "On the day on which Perón announced the discovery of this scientist, we stated we thought he was lying, but we never thought Perón himself was being fooled. General Perón, it turns out, was the otario [sucker] . . . Thus closes in international ridicule a chapter which Charlie Chaplin could well have used in his satire, 'The Great Dictator...
Finally, the unearthly vegetable touches off a conflict between the captain's horse sense and the chief scientist's highfalutin notions. The scientist (Robert Cornthwaite), who is suggestively costumed like a Russian, wants to appease The Thing to gain knowledge; the captain wants to destroy it-if he could only figure out how. For a while, it looks hopefully as if The Thing will destroy the actors. In the end, however, while small-fry moviegoers are brought to a sizzle, man masters the vegetable...