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...amounts of radioactivity that people carry in their bodies from natural causes-e.g., from cosmic rays-is "very much larger" than those derived from H-bomb fallout, replied Dr. Willard Libby, top nuclear chemist and lone scientist member of the Atomic Energy Commission, last week. Furthermore, the amount of radiation produced in humans by the fallout is "less than 1% of the maximum permissible concentration" and there is general agreement that it would take "larger concentrations, perhaps tenfold greater," to produce harmful results. Libby provided a striking example: the present dosage of strontium 90 in the bones of children...
...Willard Libby was primarily addressing himself to Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the illustrious missionary-physician and Nobel Peace Prizewinner, who had called for an end to H-bomb testing because of the strontium 90 peril. Is it not preferable. Dr. Libby gently asked Dr. Schweitzer, to accept this small risk rather than "the far greater risk, to freedom-loving people everywhere," of slackening "our defenses against the totalitarian forces"-until some method of safeguarded disarmament has been achieved...
...American Cities." They have denounced such speakers as former Rhodes Scholars Stringfellow Barr and Clarence Streit, partly because some citizens decided that the Rhodes program (launched in 1903) was nothing but a scheme to promote British rule of the world. They also kept out Pasadena's former Superintendent Willard Goslin. "A very controversial figure," said one school-board member, adding, "I don't know anything about...
...Dudley Hall and Jamaica Plain, Mass., Walter H. Caulfield, Jr. of Dunster House and East Stroudsberg, Pa., David W. Terris of Eliot House and Grosse Point, Mich., Harry L. Griffin, Jr. of Kirkland House and Charlotte, N.C., Harry J. Wexler of Lowell House and New Haven, Conn., and Willard G. McGrew, Jr., of Winthrop House and Gaithersbury, Md. Leverett House extended its election through today's noon meal owing to an exceptionally light vote last night...
...Willard G. McGraw, Jr.: Winthrop; House Comm., Sec.; Ass't House Ath. Sec.; House football and baseball...