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Harold Brown, 34, unlike most of the Whiz Kids, occupies a position of direct power as director of defense research and engineering. A forceful advocate of U.S. nuclear testing. Physicist Brown is Secretary McNamara's principal technical adviser, and is probably the scientist to whom President Kennedy now pays closest heed. Complains an Air Force officer who tangled with him over the derailed RS-7O bomber program: "He's awfully cocky and sure of himself." A Columbia Ph.D. at 21, he worked throughout the 1950s with the University of California's Radiation Laboratory, where he did research...
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...article on faith and the scientist [June 29]: there is an unwarranted assumption that science deals in faithless fact and that religion traffics in factless faith. The quote from Dr. Van Ness sums it up perfectly: "Any time religious beliefs come into conflict with the things we learn about the world, we must modify the beliefs." Any number of the scientific concepts we accept today may be simply convenient schemata that impose order upon the experiences we have collected so far. They may have little or no relation to "reality." The suspicion has been growing among many scholars during...
Guerrilla Methods, A.D.D.L. has quickly sprouted branches. In Los Angeles, one A.D.D.L. leader is Scientist Kent Gould, who complains, "We're all being reduced to numbers. Some place you've got to stop and take a stand." At Indiana University, the A.D.D.L. chapter has turned to guerrilla warfare. Interpreting the area code and seven digits as one huge number, they place calls by saying, "Operator, give me S. I. Hayakawa at four billion, one hundred fifty-five million, eight hundred forty-two thousand, three hundred and one." Growls Chapter Leader Frederick Litto, "If they want digits...
This credo, from a top scientist who is also president of the University of Chicago, illuminates the new terrain of the conflict between science and religion. Last week TIME correspondents sampled scientific and theological opinion all over the U.S. to find the borders of the terrain...