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Blundering Theorist. For five years Minister of Interior Vallenilla Lanz, 45, had been Perez Jimenez' chief flatterer, political soothsayer and official philosopher. Suave, well educated (at Paris' Sorbonne) and bookish, Minister Vallenilla mixed ideas from Mussolini, Thorstein Veblen and the U.S. fad of technocracy into a theory justifying dictatorship as the happiest state for Venezuelans. In working out what he called a "New National Ideal," Francophile, anticlerical Vallenilla Lanz led the dictator into many a blunder. One was December's unpalatable yes-or-no plebiscite for a second five-year term. Another was a conflict with...
...Yang and Lee are only two of a host of hyper-brilliant physicists and mathematicians who read like a "Who's Who in Physics and Mathematics."' On its professional staff in recent years have been Armond Bore Albert Einstein, Kurt Godel, Deane Montgomery, Marston Morse, Oppenheimer, Abraham Pais, Oswald Veblen, John von Neuman, Bengt Stromgren, Hassler Whitney, Herman Weyl, and Yang...
...Oswald Veblen, professor emeritus of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study Sc.D...
Citation: "If there is no royal road to geometry, there are highways to be built through its complex domains, and Veblen helped to build them...
...prizes are awarded annually for essays in English by undergraduates, on any topic. Lebowitz's prize-winning essay was entitled, "The Structure of Joyce's Portrait," and Fredrickson's was "Thorstein Veblen: The Last of the Vikings...