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Requirements for election to the National Academy of Sciences are brief and discriminating. Only distinguished scientists are admitted, men who have made original contributions to research. The exclusive academy (present membership 650) has been a willing servant of the U.S. Government ever since it was founded by President Abraham Lincoln 99 years ago. The academy conducts research for any Government agency that requests it, charging only expenses. In the past, its investigations have ranged from the economics of fertilizer use to the effectiveness of military uniforms. And, through hot and cold wars, the academy's offspring, the National Research...
Died. General Count Jacques Aldebert de Chambrun, 89, stalwart servant of two nations, an honorary U.S. citizen by virtue of his direct descent from the Marquis de Lafayette, a Sahara-seasoned French soldier who aided the A.E.F. by serving on General Pershing's staff, in World War II kept open both the American Hospital and American Library in Paris; after a short illness; in Paris...
...Seducing Minds." As a professor at the University of Bonn, Barth was technically a civil servant. But he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Führer or open his classes with the Nazi salute. It would be bad taste, he told them, "to begin a commentary on the Sermon on the Mount with Heil Hitler." At the end of 1934, Barth was brought before a Nazi court, found guilty of "seducing the minds" of German students. For his defense. Earth pulled a copy of Plato's Apology from his pocket, read Socrates' argument...
Frederick the Great of Prussia, who called himself "the first servant of the state," was as much a tyrant as any monarch of the 18th century, but he liked to say of himself that he was "philosopher by instinct and politician by duty." He was also a patron of the arts. He played the flute to the accompaniment of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's sons; he wrote indifferent poetry under the tutelage of his sometime friend Voltaire; he was an avid collector of paintings and sculpture. In affairs of state, he was Prussian to the bone...
...angel," and he cannot imagine muddying her wings with animality. When she wins an annulment he is desolate, and his family is disgraced -in Sicily, where the family lives, a man's virility and his public position are intimately interdependent. In despair, the young man turns to a servant girl, gets her with child. The honor of the family is thus ironically redeemed. Mastroianni's mother shouts the good news from the housetops, the neighbors come from all sides to offer congratulations. "Now you can have a home and family," burbles his best friend...