Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds of U.S. scientists, it was a marvelous scientific-technical achievement, a triumph of mind over universal matter-and at the same time a last-chance signal to beware of onrushing Russian technology. To the man whose job it was to speak and act for the U.S. and the free world, it was a challenge...
...most authoritative voices to speak up about the danger of growing Soviet scientific superiority over the U.S. belongs to Budapest-born Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller. 49, associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory and "the father of the H-bomb." Last week Teller's friends in the Pentagon were pointing glumly to his prediction in last April's Air Force magazine: "Ten years ago there was no question where the best scientists in the world could be found-here in the U.S. ... Ten years from now the best scientists in the world will...
...show of soberer responsibility, Algerian nationalists let it be known that Tunisia would speak for them officially in the forthcoming debate at the U.N. Tunisia, said Chief U.N. Delegate Bahi Ladgham, feels that the Algerian Front of National Liberation (FLN) has the support of the majority of Algerians. "We have kept in touch," he said, "and of course we are neighbors." What were the chances of success? Said Mr. Ladgham: "Each side must give...
...cries while ignoring current wars. Then the FBI comes investigating a favorite former student of his, a brilliant Negro. Certain that the student is not a Communist and equally certain why he is being smeared as one, Parson rushes to his defense and brings him to the college to speak. All too soon, by way of his wife's sleuthing, the professor learns that the student is a Communist...
...more widely beneficial use of the funds was the plan of inviting renowned men to visit the House for several days, dining and speaking with students frequently during their stay. This plan, if men in the Houses take advantage of it, is worthwhile. Unfortunately, in some cases in which distinguished visitors have been invited to speak, students have shied away from the table at which they were sitting, or stayed away from gatherings at which they spoke. Leverett House, for example, invited several important speakers for its 25th Anniversary Dinner last year, and found that few people bothered to attend...