Word: teller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the AEC's Chairman Lewis Strauss firmly opposes any test-suspension agreement on the ground that the Russians would cheat, and influential Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller supports Strauss by insisting that they technically could cheat, the 2,050-mile mistake caused a flurry of accusations that the AEC had been doing some cheating itself. Hubert Humphrey all but accused Strauss & Co. of deliberately twisting truth. Asked the Strauss-baiting Washington Post and Times Herald: "Has the AEC been bending the scientific facts to suit a preconceived position...
...White House. Lyndon Johnson began looking closely at the problems of space 2% months ago after listening to brush-browed Physicist Edward Teller (TIME, Dec. 9) testify before the Johnson Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee...
...hero of this novel ferries forth on the river Styx as matter-of-factly as if he were boating at a church social. Floyd Walker is a handsome, 32-year-old bank teller-and sparetime choirmaster-who has leukemia. With apologetic hems and haws, the town doctor of Ophelia, Mo. announces the sentence: three months, more or less, to live. In sleepy little Ophelia (pronounced "afailure") the drama of life has no acts, only intermissions, and Floyd is scarcely prepared for center stage in the town's morbidly engaged affections. He makes only one promise to himself: "From...
...choir, he scandalizes the pastor, who is devoted to muscular Christianity ("Yes, Christ is alive today, out in the field batting for us"). When Floyd laces into his choirwomen for turning the house of prayer into a den of cake sellers, the outraged ladies sing like hornets. Bank Teller Floyd has always regarded his life as a deposit for his wife and three kids, but when he fails to expire on schedule ("I wish he'd die and have done with"), they up and leave...
...spick-and-span, air-conditioned surroundings as clean as a kitchen, as cloistered as a scientific laboratory. A rare marriage of scientific talent and hard-headed business know-how, General Dynamics employs one scientist for every five workers, has a roster of consultants that includes such greats as Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, and Dr. Theodore von Karman, Caltech's brilliant mathematician and aerodynamicist...