Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President-elect Kennedy offered former TVA Chairman Gordon Clapp, an experienced Washington hand, the AEC post, but Clapp wanted no part of it. Neither did Physicist James Fisk, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Then, last week, Kennedy found an eminently satisfactory candidate who had actually asked for the AEC job: Chemist Glenn Theodore Seaborg, 48, chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley...
...manner of his opera Dialogues of the Carmelites), at times mischievous and almost jazzy. Among its memorable moments: the opening of the second section, "Laudamus Te," with the dissonant cry of French horns followed by the syncopated chanting of the chorus; the movingly lyric third section with its bell-like soprano solo. "Domine Deus"; the quietly majestic ending in a mood of "pity and peace...
...censure the faculty for its stand last week, one professor snorted: "If they're serious about telling the university what the faculty has a right to say, they can have their university without two-thirds of its faculty." At Mercer University in Macon, Emory University History Professor Bell Ervin Wiley, lecturing on Robert E. Lee, said: "It is inconceivable that Lee, if he were alive today, would advocate resistance to national authority or in any way abet social turmoil or racial hatred...
...other U.S. campus stands to lose as many faculty men to the Kennedy "brain tryst." Three are gone: Economist David E. Bell (Budget Director), Law Professor Archibald Cox (Solicitor General), and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences McGeorge Bundy (Special Assistant for National Security Affairs). Four more are reportedly to be named to still unassigned jobs: Professors Abram Chayes, John K. Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Stanley Surrey. If conservative Harvard-men shudder at the rumor that New Deal-ish Historian Schlesinger may wind up as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, they try to balance the notion with...
...share the previous year (former record: General Motors' $1,189,000,000 in 1955). Fourth-quarter earnings were $1.40 per share v. $1.33. The company's operating revenues were also a record, $7.9 billion, up from $7.4 billion. Reasons: an increase of 2,800,000 in Bell telephones in use to a 60.7 million total, a 7% growth in long-distance calling, and a 20% jump in overseas calls...