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Lanky, roughhewn Glenn Seaborg has more qualifications for running the AEC than mere desire. He is a top-rank nuclear scientist. He was a co-discoverer of the element plutonium, crucial in the development of the atom bomb. That achievement won him a 1951 Nobel Prize. His work in the laboratory has been continuously fruitful. Asked what he does, he answers with calculated simplicity: "I discover elements." To date he has been instrumental in adding nine more to the periodic table...
...hurt his leg, Temple took over as women's track coach after earning his master's degree in 1953 and set out to make it one of the college's top teams. He scoured the South for promising sprinters, labored successfully to increase his allotment of athletic scholarships from two to ten. A mark of his progress: at Tennessee State, primarily a top-rank basketball school (national small-college champions in 1957-59), women's track is now a major sport, men's track a minor. Temple's training methods are exacting. "We train...
...shuttle thousands of tourists each summer in their two boats. Morning Star and Lollipop, to visit the red-roofed monastery. And they help keep themselves self-supporting by manufacturing a perfume out of lavender, verbena and gorse grown on the island. The scent's unmonkish name: Sybil-for top-rank Irish Couturiere Sybil Connolly, who distributes it in specially made Waterford glass bottles...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.) *When an anonymous letter fingers a top-rank scientist as a Communist and delays his security clearance, he launches an investigation of his own, discovers some shocking facts. Security Risk stars Larry Gates...
...mixture of some of the trappings of modern engineering and the tedious cliches of old-fashioned melodrama. Theoretically, the show deals with a Government scientist (George Nader) studying the limits of human endurance in dangerous situations. Actually, it presents such high-flown nonsense as a story of top-rank researchers sitting out a nuclear war in an atomic submarine and suddenly tumbling to some old problems such as the extraction of oxygen from sea water...