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“... is hardly countenanced on the government benches. The latest in the long line of whiners is Steven Norris, the glamorous MP for Epping Forest, who writes in what he is pleased to call his autobiography: ‘Unless we are prepared to pay sufficient to attract candidates of high calibre, we are in real danger of finding ourselves represented ...”

“... though the lines of battle have been starkly drawn, the engagements are seldom direct. Christopher Norris describes the situation perceptively in The Contest of Faculties, paying special attention to one of the parties on the literary side of the dispute: ‘Deconstructionists,’ he writes, ‘continue to snipe from the sidelines at a mainstream philosophy ...”

“... that the Manhattan Project labs continued or even accelerated the wartime pace of bomb-building. Norris Bradbury, Oppenheimer’s successor as Director of Los Alamos, asked Teller to remain, offering him the long-coveted leadership of the lab’s Theoretical Division. But Teller had conditions that Bradbury was unable to satisfy: Los Alamos should make a ...”