Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hitler; his sister killed herself after helping her husband escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Young Fuchs was a brilliant theoretical physicist, won doctorates at both Bristol and Edinburgh. When World War II broke out, 31-year-old Fuchs, after first being interned in Canada, became a naturalized British subject and was soon recruited for Britain's secret atomic research program...
Since Fuchs was no longer a subject, the British argue that they had no option but to let him go where he wanted: to East Germany to rejoin his 84-year-old father, who is now professor emeritus of the Red-run University of Leipzig. After refusing to talk to newsmen in Britain, on board his plane or when he landed in East Berlin, Klaus Fuchs finally gave an interview to a London reporter who tracked him down at a vacation cottage near East Germany's Lake Wandlitz. Had he been decently treated in prison? "Yes." Was he still...
...almost 50 remaining years of his life, Handel (who became an English subject) turned out 39 Italianate operas, which shaped English operatic style for a generation, and almost singlehanded gave a new, dramatic shape to oratorio style. A shrewd businessman, he combed Italy for singers, scored such a success with famed Soprano Francesca Cuzzoni -described by one listener as having "a nest of nightingales in her belly"-that she sold out a benefit performance of his Ottone at a top of ?50 a seat...
...vast gulf between scientists and nonscientists is often a subject of jokes. But English Novelist Charles Percy Snow is no longer amused. Sir Charles is qualified to protest: he worked as a physicist long before he became Britain's most knowledgeable novelist of top-level science and politics (The Conscience of the Rich, Homecoming); he was knighted not for literature but for his work as chief organizer of scientists in the World War II Ministry of Labor; he is now a director of the English Electric Co. and scientific adviser to the British Civil Service Commission. "The degree...
...subject of the first panel discussion has not yet been announced, and will not be decided upon finally until after the guests arrive this week. It is expected that the visitors will discuss political, economic, and cultural developments in their own countries at the evening forums...