The Unexpected

Events, as nearly everyone knows by now, take unexpected turns. In mid- October, John Kemeny, who as a young man went to Los Alamos to solve equations for the first atom bomb, was in Washington working on a report that may well determine the fate of atomic energy in this country. While President Kemeny was in Washington, Howard Morland, a former graduate student at Thayer School, was in Hanover participating in the New Hampshire-Vermont Regional Conference on Disarmament. Morland is the author of "The H-Bomb Secret: How. We Got It, Why We're Telling It," an article which will appear in the November issue of Progressive following unsuccessful suppression attempts by the government. A few weeks earlier in October, some Dartmouth students were among the protesters who attempted to occupy the construction site of the Seabrook, New Hampshire, nuclear plant. Attorney General Thomas Rath '67, the state's ranking law enforcement officer, was responsible for making sure they didn't succeed.