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...shops sampling all the wares last week, there came to each a moment of joy, when she knew that what she had found was just the thing. "It's cute-and it does something for me," burbled a wisp of a girl in Manhattan's Bonwit Teller as she twirled in a filmy summer cocktail dress...
...bank employes accounted for, the bandits entered, herded eleven people into a 6 by 5 ft. vault, whose inner gate they locked with a chain and padlock foresightedly brought for the purpose. "Thank God they didn't close the vault doors," said one prisoner. The head teller collapsed in a faint and the others kept quiet. "I hugged the wall," said one later. "I wasn't going to get fresh." The hold-up men had eight minutes before opening time, and that was enough. By 9 a.m. the three bandits were quietly driving away with...
...assistant vice president for nuclear planning went Dr. Frederic de Hoffmann, 30, who joined the Los Alamos group fresh out of Harvard University at 20, rose to be Dr. Edward Teller's first deputy in work on the hydrogen bomb (TIME, March 7). As consultants, Convair added a blue-ribbon panel of 14 experts. Among them: Dr. Teller, now professor of physics at the University of California; Dr. Hans Bethe, first to calculate systematically all thermonuclear reactions; Dr. Theodore von Kármán, who developed Jato, later served as chief scientific adviser to the Air Force; Massachusetts...
Duty & Faith. Nowhere in the article does Teller withdraw or modify his testimony about Oppenheimer before the AEC's security board when he said: "I would feel personally more secure if public matters would rest in other hands" (than Oppenheimer...
...those who still question the wisdom of going ahead with the H-bomb, Teller has words of firm faith: "We would be unfaithful to the tradition of Western civilization if we were to shy away from exploring the limits of human achievement. It is our specific duty as scientists to explore and to explain . . . The construction of the thermonuclear weapon was a great challenge to the technical people of this country. To be in possession of this instrument is an even greater challenge to the free community in which we live. I am confident that, whatever the scientists are able...