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...Founder. The radio window was accidentally opened for the first time in 1932 by Karl Jansky. a Bell Telephone physicist who was studying the crackling static that can be so annoying in radio communications. During quiet periods, when no lightning flashes were disturbing the atmosphere, a faint hiss still sounded in his receiving apparatus. It seemed to rise and fall in strength as the earth turned. Jansky studied the hiss more carefully and found that its maximum strength came four minutes earlier each day. The time interval seemed significant...
Windswept Job. Bell was reluctant to move from the familiar, congenial Budget Bureau to the stormswept Agency for International Development. Foreign aid is unpopular with the public and with Congress; morale at AID is badly eroded, and basic concepts of foreign aid are in flux (TIME, Nov. 23). The administrative lines at AID are so snarled up after repeated reorganizations that Lawyer Hamilton, despite extensive personnel changes, was unable to get it operating effectively during his year in the job. He also lost prestige when Congress slashed the foreign aid budget a lot more heavily than usual. Hamilton...
When asked what changes he plans to make at AID, Bell says he will not know until he gets there. But it is safe to bet that he will not reduce the dollar total...
...Current Problems in National Economic Policy" was the title of the seminar that Professor Kermit Gordon, 46, was all set to teach at Williams College next year-after a planned January resignation from President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers. But last week, when David Bell was tapped to run AID, Gordon was named director of the Budget Bureau-and assigned official responsibility for grappling with the very problems that he had been planning to examine in leisurely classroom discussion...
...comedy written by Mr. Congreve is, to be sure, a play of tesserae: nostalgic, constant lovers and great, howling boobies follow each other across the stage with disconcerting briskness, like the well-oiled clockwork figures in the bell tower of some provincial Rathaus. But Mr. Chapman, to revert to the first clever and devastating simile, has fitted all the pieces together with skill and patience, and his Love for Love, consequently, has a coherence and a unity that Mr. Congreve's own play, in cold print, does...