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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (32859)	9/12/1998 7:27:00 PM
From: CGarcia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

OT******* "Sometimes people need to step back and look at the big picture and not the one the press shoves down our throat." An appropriate choice of words when you consider that impeaching a president for sexual misconduct might be more detrimental to welfare of this country, causing political uncertainty throughout the world as well as the markets, than just letting it rest might.

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (32859)	9/12/1998 8:27:00 PM
From: Satish C. Shah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

********O T******** Hello: Life is full of contradictions, and so is your message. >>..drop a warhead on a major city and instantly vaporize a few million people if her heart wouldn't have agreed? Sometimes people need to step back and look at the big picture...<< Regards, Satish

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (32859)	9/13/1998 1:37:00 AM
From: S.C. Barnard	Respond to of 97611

OT-------------------- I rarely discuss this, but my grandfather was a Harvard Physics professor in 1939, worked for MIT radiation laboratory and civilian physicist during WWII. I know he taught the British how to operate MAD magnetic anomoly detectors (antisubmarine weapons). He was friends with Gen. Leslie Groves, who set him up in his first laboratory. He also worked at TRINITY at Los Alamos among 2000 others, and TELSTAR for Bell Labs, Instructed astronauts at NASA, invented reentry anti-blocking devices for communications, as well as calculating the depths of the Indian Ocean fror Wood's Hole Oceanographic institute in the 1950's -his name, according to my aunt appears on a plaque aboard the lunar rover. I believe it is no longer on the moon as she told me. He developed a navigational system aboard our USS Benjamin Franklin Nuclear Submarine. During WWII, he was told if he did not wear his blue uniform, he could be shot on sight as a spy. I understand about not letting emotions get in the way of work, as he was quite good at not disclosing anything, even to his family. On August 6, 1945, He plopped the newspaper down on the floor, that showed Hiroshima being obliterated and said "Well, there it is." My mother knew he was ruined inside by it. He also had a cheap affair with the mother of a famous New Yorker cartoonist. This is from my mother walking in on them. He went on and was quite successful with his inventons like one of the first infra red lasers, and first microchips. Sadly most were contracted to various companies like General Time, Liquidometer Corp., Sec'y of the Navy, etc. for which he recieved only a salary, and no further compensation.I have copies of these patents with his name on each, from a US patent library in my area. The tawdry affair did not hinder his success. He soon after divorced my grandmother (whom I've never met) and remarried someone else. Perhaps like me, all he wanted was to be at machines, according to what my mother said.