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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as the case went on. U.S. Archivist Wayne C. Grover spoke up to reassure the alarmists. "No one at the National Archives," he said, "has any inclination or intention whatsoever of attempting to gain physical possession of those historical documents currently in the possession of such responsible institutions as the great university libraries and the widely respected historical associations." Yet Grover was in fact warning those collectors and dealers to whom federal documents are merely items for private profit. If the archives has its way, it will no longer permit such papers as those of Lewis and Clark...
...firmest hitching posts in science is absolute zero, the temperature ( -273° C. or 0° Kelvin) where vibratory motions of the atoms cease. Generations of physics students have been told that nothing can get colder than 0° K. It gave them a comfortable feeling that here at least was a final point beyond which they need not worry. Recently in Manhattan, Professor Norman F. Ramsey of Harvard University told a meeting of the American Ordnance Association about a new set of laws that must be worked out to deal with a temperature range that reaches below absolute zero...
...relaxation of the Lutheran attitude to divorce. The commission's report would supersede the code adopted in 1930, under which only "innocent" parties to divorce granted for adultery or desertion could be remarried-and not within a year of the divorce. "Our new stand," said the Rev. William C. Zimmann, chairman of the commission, "recognizes a more realistic view ... It doesn't mean that a person will be permitted to marry the day after he obtains a divorce, but it will be easier for the church to look at the whole matter." The new position is "an attempt...
...absence of direct contact between President and press has created a "dangerous vacuum"-harmful to the President, the public and the functioning of the Government. Drummond suggested that Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams might hold weekly press conferences until Ike is ready, or that Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty could accept a weekly sheaf of written questions for the President to answer...
Despite all the jeering and complaints, most businessmen agree that in a complex, highly diversified company, conferences are essential. Says Board Chairman Frederick C. Crawford of Thompson Products, Inc.: "Companies that have decentralized, as we have, have run into the problem of communications between divisions. Conferences have become increasingly important to us." Says Boeing Airplane Co.'s Senior Vice President Wellwood E. Beall: conferences can be "good for morale and give an increased sense of participation in policymaking." Furthermore, decisions made by a group in which everyone understands the "why" of the decision have a better chance of being...