Table of Contents

In This Issue

Books
Modern Science and the Nature of Life by William S. Beck
The Dawn of Life by J. H. Rush

Features:

Science and the National Welfare
Our survival depends on our ability to act decisively—and now.
by H. Rowan Gaither

The Coldest Spot in the World
It's in a vacuum tube in the low-temperature physics laboratory.
by Jane Werner Watson

Campus News:

The Month at Caltech

Alumni Seminar Day—1958

Personals