Word: tellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to TIME, Nov. 18, for its article on Edward Teller, and for showing the world that we do have men endowed with scientific talents who have a genuine interest in our country and its future...
...shocking comparison between science education in our high schools and those of the U.S.S.R. - as brought out in your fine and important cover story on Dr. Edward Teller - is truly appalling. In light of this emergency where the security of our nation is involved, I think our quibbling, pussyfootiing, philosophizing, and hairsplitting over federal aid to education are ridiculous. Let's get with it. But fast...
...time for people to get to safety. This meant turning down a program advanced by onetime Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson, who startled the Administration early this year by announcing that civilian salvation lay in $34 billion-plus worth of heavy, blastproof bomb shelters. Some authorities, like Scientist Edward Teller (TIME, Jan. 21), even envisaged a vast underground network where men could survive for an indefinite time after an attack. Civil Defense Administrator Leo Hoegh (who replaced Peterson last July) has, like the Gaither committee, virtually abandoned the blast-shelter idea in favor of fallout shelters. Reason: radioactive fallout, with...
...develop an ear for science in the public, Teller advocates "science-appreciation" programs for both children and adults. "Baseball could not flourish without fans," he says, "but where are the science fans...
Even if the U.S. manages to win the science race, says Edward Teller, "there are bigger problems for tomorrow: how to live with each other on a greatly contracted globe; how to have law and order in the world; how to extend industrialization throughout the world; how to eliminate racial strife and solve the problems of the heritage of hatred left behind by oppression and past discords. In all these really difficult problems, the problem of the scientific race is only a small part. But if we fail in that, we won't even have a voice in these...