Martian's Daughter: A Memoir
Page 39
gender bias, 152
imports, 120
relations with US, 139, 151, 226
-US cost differential, 232–33
See also Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Tokyo
Javits, Jacob, 165
Jeffries, Cynthia, 59
Jews, 17 39, 79, 99
assimilated, 13
banned, 14
Burma, 138
conservative, 108
Germany, 11, 16, 58
Hungary, 4, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 23, 58
United States, 15
See also Brandeis University
Johnson, Elmer, 224, 229, 239, 240, 244
Johnson, Lyndon, 110, 113, 114, 116, 139, 173
Johnston, Jim, 248
Johnston, Margaret, 248
Joint Economic Committee, 138, 144
Economic Problems of Women, 164
Joliet, IL, 126
Jones, Sidney, 124
Jones, Tom, 111
Journal of Commerce, 149
JPMorgan Chase, 183
Kabuki theater, 152
Kehrl, Howard, 235, 246–47, 263
Keidanren, 152, 231
Keller, Maryann, 223
Kennedy, John F., 113
advisers, 173
assassination, 107
Bay of Pigs, 106
economy, 139
Kennedy, Robert, 113
Kennedy Center, 146
Kennedy School of Government, 209
Keynes, John Maynard, 98, 163, 173, 174
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 112
“I Have a Dream,” 110
Kirby, Bob, 185, 187
Kissinger, Henry, 68, 146, 149
Koestler, Arthur, 59
Darkness at Noon, 58
Kövesi, Géza, 9
Kövesi, Mariette. See Kuper, Mariette Kövesi von Neumann
Kövesi, Paulette, 30
Krogh, Egil (Bud), 157–58
Ku Klux Klan, 110
Kun, Béla, 10
Kuper, George Henry, III (Gorky), 76, 276
birth, 30
career
National Productivity Commission, 185
childhood, 31–32, 74
education, 35
inferiority complex, 75
Kuper, James Brown Horner (Desmond), 21, 29, 76, 83
career
Brookhaven National Laboratory, 43, 46, 104
Federal Communications Laboratory, 40
National Institutes of Health, 28
Radiation Laboratory (RadLab), 31–32, 35
education
Princeton University, 28
marriage to Mariette Kövesi von Neumann Kuper, 22, 27, 47
life in Cambridge, 32–40, 60
life in New York, 40–46
life in Washington, DC, 19, 28–40
life on Long Island, 46, 61–62, 73–75, 86
Villa Francesca, 73, 86
retirement residence in Ann Arbor, 276
Kuper, Mariette Kövesi von Neumann, 41
career
Brookhaven National Laboratory, 42, 43, 46, 185
Harvey Radio Laboratories, 32
Initiatory University Group (IUG), 40–41
Radiation Laboratory (RadLab), 31–32, 33, 35
Sperry Gyroscope Company, 40
childhood, 7–10
death, 275, 276–77
divorce from John, 21, 27
education
Spanish Riding School, 9
University of Budapest, 12–13
engagement to von Neumann, 12
funeral, 277
marriage to James Brown Horner (Desmond) Kuper, 47
life in Cambridge, 32–40
life in New York, 40–46
life in Washington, DC, 28–40
life on Long Island, 46, 61–62, 73–75, 86, 276
Villa Francesca, 73, 86
marriage to John von Neumann, 13–21
life in Princeton, 15–21
wedding, 12
parents (see Kövesi, Géza; Kövesi, Paulette)
US citizenship, 16, 19, 26
Lanzillotti, Bob, 128
League of Nations, 99
Lederberg, Joshua, 196
Le Duc Tho, 149
Leonard, Robert, 23, 25
Levesconte, Miss (Vee), 30, 31
Library of Congress, 73, 283
Liddy, G. Gordon, 157
Life, 20, 39, 52
Liuzzo, Viola, 110–11
Lockheed Martin, 196
Long Island, NY, 2, 42, 46, 61–62, 73–75, 86, 276
Long Islander, 75, 94
Los Alamos, NM, 33, 37, 40, 45, 46, 49, 57, 77, 79, 284n1
See also Manhattan Project
Lutheran Gymnasium, 8
MacArthur Foundation, 207
Macrae, Norman, 14
Mafia, 198
Magruder, Jeb Stuart, 157–58, 159
Malraux, André
Man's Fate, 58
Manhattan Project, 4, 26, 37, 38, 57, 77, 78, 185
Manufacturers Hanover Bank, 178–86, 195, 217
merger with Chemical Bank, 183
(see also Chemical Bank)
Mao Zedong, 137
Mapplethorpe, Robert, 191
Marcor, 188–89, 204
Marshall Islands, 45
Martin, Lynn, 190, 197
Marton, Kati
Enemies of the People, 14
The Great Escape, 14
Maryland, 29, 49
See also Aberdeen; Bethesda; Montgomery County; University of Maryland
Massachusetts, 135, 207
See also Boston
Mayflower, 65, 82
McCarthy, Eugene, 113
McCarthy, Joseph, 10
anticommunism, 77, 79, 115
McCloy, 186, 187, 188
McCord, James, 157
McCracken, Paul, 115, 118, 119, 121–22, 124, 125, 129, 216, 217
McDonald, F. James, 235, 258–59
McDonald, John
Strategy in Poker, Business, and War, 24
McGillicuddy, John, 184
McGill University, 212
McLaughlin, Ann, 194
McNulty, Jack, 192, 249, 250, 263
Mellon Foundation, 102, 210
Mexico, 196, 253
Miami, FL, 142–43
Michigan. See Detroit; Flint; Traverse City; University of Michigan; Warren
Miss Fine's School for Girls, 55–57, 61, 95
Mitchell, John, 156–58
Mobil Oil Company, 188–89
Molinari, Margaret, 271, 275
Montgomery, AL, 110
Montgomery County, MD, 117
Moore, Michael
Roger and Me, 250, 255
Moore School of Electrical Engineering, 49
Moran, Mariana, 29
Morgenstern, Dorothy, 59
Morgenstern, Oskar, 23, 59
Theory of Games and Economy Behavior, 12, 58
Mt. Auburn Hospital, 71
Myanmar (Burma), 200–201
Nader, Ralph, 173
Nagasaki, Japan, 40
Nassau Club, 24
Nassau Hall, 210
National Academy of Engineering, 247
National Academy of Sciences, 272
National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA), 229
National Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, 169, 185
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 131
National Guard, 117, 168
National Institutes of Health, 28
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 116
National Science Foundation, 135
national security, 1, 78, 79, 202, 203
National Security Council, 68, 141
Naylor, Mike, 228, 229, 259
Nazi-Fascist alliance
Hungary, 10
nazism, 25, 39
Germany, 16, 17, 99
Hungary, 26, 58
Newark, NJ, 18, 19, 221
New
Economic Policy, 124, 139
New United Motor Manufacturing (NUMMI), 237–38
“New Voices in Business: Ladies of the Boardroom,” 180
New Yorker, 102
New York Federal Reserve Bank, 183
New York Harbor, 20
New York Times, 9, 69, 94, 145, 157, 167, 176, 227, 257
Book Review, 274
Nixon, Pat, 154
Nixon, Richard, 117, 154–56, 180, 187
Council of Economic Advisers, 5
Whitman appointment, 131–34, 136–38
gender bias, 142, 145
resignation, 160, 162–63
economic policy, 121, 142, 144–45, 170, 176
enemies list, 142
foreign policy, 115–16, 138
impeachment, 11
pardon, 169
reelection, 156
Republican convention, 1972 (Miami), 142–43
resignation, 168
Senate, 115
trip to China, 137–38, 157, 163
Vietnam War, 149
ending of, 163
escalation of, 143
wage-price controls, 175
Watergate
audiotapes, 131, 168
break-ins, 155–59, 169
cover-up, 5, 159, 169, 170
firing of Cox, 198
hearings, 155, 160
logs from surveillance, 131
Nobel Prize, 8, 35, 57, 96, 196
Normandie, 19, 20, 30
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 165, 253
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 141, 157
North Vietnam, 149
Notre Dame University, 272
Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), 116
Numerus Clausus, 10
Nurkse, Ragnar, 99
Nye, Joe, 209
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 229
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 116
O'Connell, Bob, 241, 267, 268
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 124, 129, 203
Old Executive Office Building (EOB), 114, 116, 118, 136–37, 140, 178
Olympic Games, 34
O'Neill, Paul, 203–4
Operation Crossroads, 45
Oppenheimer, Robert, 10, 77–80, 93, 159
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 150, 219
Ortvay, Rudolf, 20
Ostry, Sylvia, 152
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 107
Oval Office, 91, 132, 133, 160
Palo Alto, CA, 215–16, 218
Pay Board, 127, 144
Pearce, Harry, 263
Pearson, Gloria, 244, 245
Penn Station, 95, 100, 221
Pentagon Papers, 142, 159
Pepper, John, 191, 192–93, 197
Perils of Pauline, 58
Perlman, Mark, 108, 188
Perot, Ross, 229, 239, 240, 254
Peterson, Peter G., 122–23, 187
“Peterson Report,” 123, 151
Peterson Foundation, 123
Pfizer, 255
Pierce, Josephine, 103, 117
Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association
Region with a Future: Economic Study of the Pittsburgh Region, 104
Presley, Elvis, 1
Press, Frank, 272
Price Commission, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 135, 137, 138, 139, 144, 179, 217
Princeton, NJ, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 36–40, 54–56, 59, 73, 76–77, 90, 92, 231
cemetery, 93
See also Nassau Club
Princeton Adult School, 55
Princeton Country Day School, 55
Princeton Day School (PDS), 55
Princeton Hospital, 19, 71
Princeton Inn, 211
Princeton University, 2, 4, 12, 16, 19, 28, 44, 46, 58, 61, 73, 81, 88, 91, 94–95, 102, 118, 204, 207
disinvestment, 205
Lewis Thomas Laboratory, 211
Nassau Hall, 210
search for president, 212–13
Princeton University Press, 100
Proxmire, William, 135, 164, 165
quantum mechanics, 12, 60, 70–71, 80
Queen Mary, 19, 20
Rabi, I. I., 35, 41
Rabi, Margaret, 35, 36, 50, 82
Radcliffe College, 55–56, 65–66, 94, 205–6
Board of Trustees, 207
Holmes Hall, 64, 66
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 283
Radcliffe News, 67
Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, 290n23
Raines, Franklin, 111
The Ranch, 21
Rand Corporation, 24
Reagan, Ronald, 177, 233, 234, 235, 253
Red Terror, 10, 11
Reuss, Henry, 164