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Martian's Daughter: A Memoir

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by Whitman, Marina von Neumann


  Reuss, Lloyd, 248, 262–63, 267–68, 270

  Reves, Emery, 58, 59

  Rice, Condoleezza, 278

  Richardson, Elliot, 158, 168

  Riverside Hotel, 21

  Rockefeller, David, 226, 227

  Rockefeller, Nelson, 115, 169

  Commission, 185

  Rogers, William, 131

  Romer, Christina, 278

  Rothschild, Emma

  Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age, 219–20

  Ruby, Jack, 107

  Ruckelshaus, William, 168, 198

  Rudenstine, Neil, 212, 213

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 125–26, 141, 157

  Rumsfeld, Joyce, 141

  Santa Barbara, CA, 45

  Sarkady, Mark, 260

  Saturday Night Massacre, 168, 198

  Saturn Corporation, 236–38, 260

  Schriever, Bernard, 1–2

  Seevers, Gary, 161

  Senate. See US Senate

  Shady Hill School, 34, 35

  Shapiro, Bernard, 212

  Shapiro, Harold T., 212–13

  Shaw, George Bernard, 117, 131, 147

  Shepherd, Anne, 55–56

  Shultz, George, 124, 129, 138, 160, 161

  Sidwell Friends School, 131

  Silone, Ignazio

  Bread and Wine, 58

  Simmons, Adele, 207

  Simmons, Jim, 130

  Smale, John, 267

  Smith, Alan, 244, 245, 247, 259, 260, 263–64, 267, 268, 269

  Smith, Roger, 216–17, 219, 223–41

  Smithsonian, 51

  Agreement, 139, 150

  Solomon, Ezra, 138, 154, 161

  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

  life in Princeton with Klari, 23–24, 36, 38–40, 44

  life in Princeton with Mariette, 15–18, 21

  marriage to Klari, 22, 23, 48–49, 53–54, 107

  marriage to Mariette, 13–21

  “Martians,” 4

  meeting Mariette Kövesi, 7

  parental advice on Whitman's engagement, 4, 80–82

  parents (see von Neumann, Margaret; von Neumann, Max)

  P
residential Medal of Freedom, 91

  quantum mechanics, 12, 60, 70–71, 80

  religious beliefs

  conversion to Catholicism, 13, 92–93

  Jew, 10, 84

  US citizenship, 16, 19, 26

  Walter Reed Army Hospital, 1, 85, 91, 92

  funeral mass, 93

  wedding, 12

  works

  “Can We Survive Technology?,” 25

  The Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, 12

  Theory of Games and Economy Behavior, 12, 24, 58, 76

  von Neumann, Klari, 24, 25, 38, 39, 57, 58, 59, 61, 82, 83, 91, 92, 283

  engagement to John, 38–39

  “A Grasshopper in Very Tall Grass,” 39

  insecurity, 53

  life in Princeton, 23–24, 48–49

  marriage to John, 22, 23, 48–54, 107

  suicide, 107

  von Neumann, Margaret (Granny Gitta), 54–55

  cancer, 86

  von Neumann, Max, 7, 54

  von Neumann, Michael, 9

  von Neumann, Nicholas, 9

  Voting Rights Act of 1965, 110

  wage-price controls program, 125, 142, 150, 161, 175

  Waldorf Astoria, 251

  Wall Street Journal, 133, 192, 257

  Walter Reed Army Hospital, 1, 85, 91, 92

  funeral mass, 93

  Warren, MI, 258

  Washington, DC, 16, 28, 30, 118

  Washington Post, 142, 155, 157, 158, 170, 233, 234

  Washington press corps, 133, 145

  Watergate, 137, 162, 164, 167

  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

  Weil, André, 17

  Wells, Jerry, 106, 112

  Wells, Nancy, 112

  Westinghouse Electric, 185, 186–87, 188, 204, 217

  White, Harry, 289n9

  White House, 78, 113, 116, 118, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 136, 137, 145, 154, 155, 157–59, 161, 164, 175

  Whitman, Laura, 107–8, 117, 129, 135, 145, 147, 148, 149–50, 217–19

  children, 278, 280 (see also Downie, Lindsey; Downie, William)

  education

  Duke University, 170, 211–12

  Ellis School, 218

  Gunn Senior High School, 218

  Phillips Andover, 218

  funeral of grandmother, 277

  marriage to David Downie, 170, 275

  physician, 277–78

  wedding, 275–76

  Whitman, Malcolm, 117, 146, 147, 148–49

  assassination of Kennedy, 107

  biologist, 277

  birth, 100, 101

  chicken pox, 108

  childhood depression, 149

  education, 129, 131, 210–11

  college, 2

  funeral of grandmother, 277

  German measles, 108

  scarlet fever, 108

  Whitman, Marina von Neumann

  birth, 19

  breast cancer, 279, 281

  career

  Alcoa, board of directors, 203, 204

  Browning Ferris Industries (BFI), board of directors, 198, 204

  Council of Economic Advisers, appointment by Nixon, 5, 114–79, 187, 203, 216, 217, 221, 222, 226

  gender bias, 135–36, 142, 145

  resignation, 160, 162–63

  Economically Speaking (Public Broadcasting Service television program), 172–74

  Educational Testing Service (ETS), administrative assistant, 90, 93–94

  General Motors, senior executive, 5, 94, 98, 215–16, 221–72, 274

  move to Ann Arbor, 243

  retirement, 269

  Harvard University, overseer, 205, 206–9, 212

  Institute for Advanced Study, trustee, 281

  Long Islander, reporter, 75–76, 94

  Manufacturers Hanover Bank, board of directors, 178–86, 195, 217

  Marcor, board of directors, 188–89, 204

  Princeton University, trustee, 209–12

  Procter and Gamble, board of directors, 189–94, 195, 196–97, 204, 217, 267

  University of Michigan, professor, 200, 273–74

  University of Pittsburgh, professor, 95, 105, 109, 111–12, 129–30, 162, 167, 222, 273

  Unocal, board of directors, 198, 199–203, 204–5

  Westinghouse Electric, board of directors, 185, 186–87, 188, 204, 217

  Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 215–16

  childhood, 27–47

  Cambridge, 32–40

  New York, 40–46

 

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