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Hungarian-born Theodore von Karman, chief of NATO's AGARD in Paris, insists that in atomic and missile research the Germans were used only on a low technical level, points out that almost all have long since been sent home. "The Russians,'' says President Andrew G. Haley of the International Astronautical Federation, "didn't get as much from the Germans...
...Karman lived with his sister Josephine (Pipo), who acted as his secretary and protector. When she died five years ago, his friends feared that he would never recover from the shock. He managed to make an adjustment, and in 1952, when he was 70, Von Karman became chairman of AGARD (Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development), set up by NATO on his recommendation. Its job is to review advances in aeronautical science for application to the defense problems of the Western nations, and Von Karman, with his many languages, eminence and friendship with everyone in the field, is perhaps...
...recommendation for a "soft veto," i.e., accompanied by reassurances to farmers, came from Franklin Roosevelt's longtime (1933-40) Secretary of Agriculture, onetime (1941-45) Vice President Henry Agard Wallace. Farmer Wallace added that he will vote for Eisenhower in November, "not on the farm issue but on the peace issue...
Walter R. Agard, professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin . L.H.D...
...Manpower Commissioner (1942-45). His White House chances reached their high in the 1940 Democratic Convention in Chicago, when, backed by a nationwide string of McNutt-for-President clubs, he was a leading candidate for the vice-presidential nomination, but loyally withdrew after Roosevelt insisted on Henry Agard Wallace as a running mate...