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Died. Irving Lorge, 55, research psychologist and authority on intelligence testing who decried the theory of the immutable intelligence quotient, held instead that proper schooling could raise a child's IQ by 20 points; of a heart attack; in New York City. An outspoken theorist who never lost sight of practicalities, Lorge rewrote wartime OPA regulations into understandable English as part of a crusade for greater readability in public documents, insisted that trashy books do not cause juvenile delinquency and argued that teachers ought to learn the lingo of their students...
...early-warning radar system, planned the instrumentation for the Bikini A-bomb test, helped develop the Distant Early Warning radar line and the SAGE communications system. As professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. and director of its Research Laboratory of Electronics, Wiesner is both an administrator and a theorist...
William Shockley, 50, is that rare breed of scientist, a theorist who makes no apology for a consuming interest in the practical applications of his work. "Asking how much of a research job is pure and how much applied," says Shockley, "is like asking how much Negro and white blood Ralph Bunche might have. What's important is that Ralph Bunche is a great man." Hired by Bell Telephone Laboratories right after he graduated from M.I.T. in 1936, Theoretical Physicist Shockley was one of a team that found a use for what had previously been a scientific parlor stunt...
...Philip C. Jessup, currently an associate of the Rockefeller Foundation and a famed theorist on international law whose practical experience dates back to the days of the League of Nations, where he assisted crusty old Elihu Root in dealings with the League's Permanent Court of International Justice. Jessup's career suffered a setback during the McCarthy heyday when the Senate, on the strength of a 1951 Internal Security Subcommittee investigation, withheld confirmation of his appointment as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. (Senators objected to his connections with the Red-infiltrated Institute of Pacific Relations...
...paper had been drafted, and it was unlikely that Liu had gone to Moscow except to sign it. Yet whatever the words that papered over the rift between Moscow and Peking, victory had palpably eluded Khrushchev. Mao Tse-tung, China's No. 1 Communist and the senior theorist of the Communist world, had stayed in Peking (where last week he issued the usual dutiful acknowledgment that the Soviet Union "heads the Socialist camp"). By his absence, Mao deprived Khrushchev of acquiescence at the one point where acquiescence counts decisively in the Communist faith-at the summit itself...