Martian's Daughter: A Memoir (50 page)

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)

Presidential 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

Princeton

early years,
15
–
18
,
21
,
23
–
24
,
34
,
36
,
38
–
40
,
44