Martian's Daughter: A Memoir (49 page)

The Song of Bernadette
,
36

South Africa,
204
–
5

Soviet Hungarian Republic,
10

Soviet Union

communism,
58
,
79
,
137
,
153
,
159
,
273

Sparkman, John,
165
,
167

Sperry Gyroscope Company,
40

St. Andrews Episcopal Church,
275

Stanford University,
154
,
161
,
215
,
216

business school,
138
,
216

medical facility,
218

Stateville Penitentiary,
126

Stein, Ben,
187
,
188

Stein, Herbert,
118
,
129
,
133
,
138
,
150
,
151
,
160
,
187

Stempel, Bob,
260
,
261
–
63
,
267
–
69
,
270

Stevens, Ann,
278

Stevenson, Adlai,
68

Stewart, John,
260
,
265

St. John,
146
–
47

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT1),
116
,
137

Strauss, Lewis,
77
–
79
,
80
,
91
,
93
,
159

Strauss, Richard,
72

Sullivan, Leon,
205

Sullivan Principles,
205

Summit Conference on Inflation,
174
–
76

Szilard, Leo,
4

Tavoulareas, William,
188
–
89

Taylor, Katharine,
35

Teller, Edward,
4
,
10
,
57
,
77
,
78
–
79
,
169
,
185

Temple, Shirley,
31

Tennessee,
236

Texas,
198

Tilghman, Shirley,
212

Tokyo, Japan,
151

Tokyo Round,
165

Toyoda, Eiji,
236

Toyota,
219
,
236
–
37
,
238
,
259

production system,
246

Transpo ’72,
220
,
260
,
261

Traverse City, MI,
259
,
260
,
261
,
263

Trilateral Commission,
226
,
233

Truman, Harry,
40
,
214

Trunk Bay,
146
–
47

Tufts University,
207

Tyson, Laura,
278

Uchitelle, Louis,
274

Ulam, Françoise,
46

Ulam, Stan,
22
,
46

Union of Radical Political Economists (URPE),
112

Union Oil Company,
198

Unitarian Church,
85
,
86

United Auto Workers (UAW),
232
,
233
,
234
,
235
,
236
,
237
,
262

United Nations,
227

United Steelworkers Union,
173

United Way,
255

University of Berlin,
4
,
12
,
15

University of Budapest,
8
,
9

University of California, Berkeley,
79

University of Maryland,
249

University of Michigan,
118
,
119
,
129
,
200
,
212
,
233
,
243
,
257

Business School,
216
,
273

Rackham Building,
275

School of Public Policy,
273

University of Pennsylvania

Moore School of Electrical Engineering,
49

University of Pittsburgh,
95
,
102
,
104
,
105
,
109

University Theater,
36

Unocal,
198
,
199
–
203
,
204
–
5

Uruguay Round,
152
,
165

US Air Force,
24

US Army Air Corps,
40
,
278

US Congress,
31
–
32
,
116
,
117
,
122
,
129
,
158
,
175
,
176
,
194
,
217
,
219
,
234
,
237
,
273

Democrats,
149

Republicans,
156

US Department of Commerce,
247

US Department of Energy,
79

US Department of Justice,
188

US Food and Drug Administration,
191

US Senate

Banking Committee,
135

confirmation of CEA positions,
115

confirmation of von Neumann to AEC,
79
–
80

confirmation of Whitman to CEA,
133
–
36

hearings on whether GM was a monopoly,
230

Nixon's threat of impeachment,
168

Watergate Committee,
158
,
167

US State Department,
17

U.S. Steel,
105

US Trade Representative,
253

Valentine, John,
94

Vassar College,
55
,
61

Veblen, Elizabeth Mary Dixon Richardson,
19

Veblen, Oswald,
19

Veblen, Thorstein,
19

Vichy France,
17
,
99

Vienna, Austria,
7
,
9
,
168
,
177

Vietnam War,
55
,
109
,
111
,
180

demonstrations,
117

Johnson reviled for escalation,
113

Nixon's ending of,
163

Nixon's escalation of,
143

See also
North Vietnam

Villa Francesca,
73
,
86

Volcker, Paul,
121
,
123
,
166
,
177
,
226

Volcker Group,
121
,
139
,
140
,
156
,
166

Voluntary Export Restraints,
234

von Karman, Theodore,
4

von Neumann, John

anticommunism,
11
,
24
,
169

atomic bomb development,
24
,
57

atomic energy adviser to Eisenhower,
78

atomic energy and children,
42

Atomic Energy Commission

member of,
91

nominated for a seat,
79
,
84

burial

Princeton cemetery,
281

cancer,
1
,
2
,
25
,
83
,
179
(
see also
Walter Reed Army Hospital)

career

Institute for Advanced Study (IAS; Princeton University),
16
–
17
,
19
,
26
,
50
–
51
,
77
,
79

Manhattan Project,
37
–
38

Princeton University,
4
,
12
,
15

University of Berlin,
4
,
12
,
15

childhood,
7
–
10

Cold War involvement,
4
,
20

computers,
4
,
26
,
39
,
49
–
51
,
77
,
91
–
92
,
128
,
223
,
278
,
281

death,
25
,
40
,
51
,
92
–
94

divorce from Mariette,
27

education

Eidgennossische Technische Hochschule (ETH),
8

Lutheran Gymnasium,
8

University of Budapest,
8

engagement to Klari,
38
–
39

engagement to Mariette,
12

Enrico Fermi Presidential Award,
91

first published paper,
8

game theory,
4
,
12
,
23
,
24
–
25
,
26
,
38
,
223