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...Astin, chief of the Bureau of Standards, because, he said, the bureau had not been "sufficiently objective" when it tested AD-X2 and pronounced it worthless. The scientific furor which followed caused Weeks to reinstate Astin temporarily (TIME, April 27), and the Senate Small Business Committee to announce it would hold a full investigation...
...Astin, an eminent physicist, took the stand and said that the "trace elements" were just impurities in the salts. But when Astin defended the bureau's findings on AD-X2, Committee Chairman Edward Thye, Minnesota's other Senator, pointed to a stack of orders for the battery dope. "That means more to me" he said firmly, "than the technical talk of a bunch of chemists ... If a good, hard-fisted businessman has used the product . . . and is fool enough to come up and place orders month after month, what is the matter with him? Or otherwise, what...
...After the storm of protest when he fired Dr. Allen V. Astin as head of the National Bureau of Standards, Commerce Secretary Weeks decided...
...Astin to stay on for a while...
Last week, less than twelve hours before Dr. Astin's firing was to become effective, "Sinny" Weeks changed his mind, and his headlong approach to the problem in the Bureau of Standards. He had decided, he announced, that Dr. Astin should stay on for two or three months, while a committee from the National Academy of Sciences studies both the bureau and the AD-X2 case and makes a report. Added Weeks, in a hasty turnabout: "At no time has there been any intent ... to cast reflection upon the integrity of the bureau or the professional competence or integrity...