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Last spring Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks questioned the objectivity of a National Bureau of Standards' investigation that found the battery additive, AD-X2, worthless, and forced the resignation of Dr. Allen V. Astin, the bureau's director (TIME, April 27; July 6). In the subsequent hullabaloo, a committee of ten well-known scientists was assigned to investigate the battery dope, and Weeks reinstated Astin "temporarily." (He later made the reinstatement permanent.) Last week the committee's report was made public: 1) the quality of the bureau's investigation under Dr. Astin was "excellent...
...Chrysler Corp. Board Chairman K. T. (for Kaufman Thuma) Keller, director since 1950 of the Defense Department's Guided Missiles Office, 2) Craig R. Sheaffer, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Sheaffer, Iowa pen manufacturer, had been on the way out ever since his attempt to get Allen V. Astin fired from his post as Bureau of Standards director detonated the great battery-additive debate (TIME, April...
...first get-going months of the Eisenhower Administration. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks resoundingly stubbed his toe by firing Dr. Allen V. Astin, 49, head of the National Bureau of Standards, in a row over Bureau tests of the battery additive AD-X2 (TIME, April 27). In the ensuing hullabaloo of scientific outrage and threatened resignations, Weeks reconsidered, decided to keep Astin for a few months, ostensibly while he looked for a permanent replacement...
Last week "Sinny" Weeks pulled back all the way, announced that Astin would be retained as "a key official ... a member of my team." But hereafter, said Weeks, Astin's men would confine their work to "the technical area," leave to Weeks the decisions on what commercial products should be tested and whether unfavorable findings should be publicized...
...General Foods Corp. were satisfied AD-X2 customers. Engineers from industry, mechanics from the Army and Navy, battery salesmen, all praised the additive in testimony before the committee. But no one could swear that AD-X2 had really revived their batteries. "Suppose you have a cold," suggested Dr. Astin, "and you take some aspirin, and you are better the same day. Did the aspirin do it, or would you have been better anyway...