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I read the book by Pais. The change I just made clarifies WHY Einstein was casually dismissive of the challenge to his theory. The effect was claimed to be small but measureable under the right conditions. (Sound familiar? Neutrinos, anyone?)  Plus, to incorporate the claimed experimental result into Einstein's equations would have required an "ugly" higher-order term that seemed out of place in the otherwise simple equations. (Well, they are simple TO LOOK AT, when written in tensor form!) So Einstein's reaction was partly skepticism, and partly aesthetics. Probably there was some pride involved also, but I can't document that. :-)