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...four conservative members are Edward Allen Tamm, 67, a Johnson appointee who once served as right-hand man to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; George E. MacKinnon, 67, a longtime acquaintance of Richard Nixon; Roger Robb, 66, a Nixon appointee who used to represent Senator James Eastland of Mississippi; and Malcolm Richard Wilkey, 54, a former U.S. Attorney in Houston and onetime counsel for the Kennecott Copper Corp...
Died. Igor Tamm, 75, physicist and a leading libertarian within Soviet science; in Moscow. A critic of Kremlin attempts to police the scientific community, Tamm never joined the Communist Party. In 1958 he shared the Nobel Prize with two Soviet colleagues for discovering and explaining the "Cherenkov effect," the bluish glow that occurs when high-energy electrons pass through a transparent substance. Tamm's prominence among Russian theoretical physicists was based largely on his work blending quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity...
Speaking Friday after a meeting with executive director of the International Association of Police Chiefs, Quinn Tamm, Mitchell noted the First Amendment rights of free speech, and stressed that no action would be taken, "unless we can find a causal connection" between such rhetoric and a specific incident...
...convergence of American and Russian systems, who lectures at the Lebedev Institute of Physics in Moscow, chalked on the blackboard a plea for signatures on a protest petition. Other intellectuals, including Alexander Tvardovsky, the ousted editor of Novy Mir, Roy Medvedev, Zhores' twin brother, and Igor Tamm, Nobel-prizewinning physicist, also protested Medvedev's imprisonment...
...Quinn Tamm, 58, is not a policeman at all, but he is one of the most influential voices for police reform in the country. He has been behind most of the chiefs' innovations and has been a prime mover in efforts to interest the colleges in crime and college men in crime fighting. A former assistant director of the FBI, Tamm became executive director of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 1961, quickly turned it from a genial club into a highly expert organization that not only trains police administrators but, on request of city governments, studies...