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...Chairman of the commission is Frazar B. Wilde, chairman of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Among the members: Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Chairman James B. Black; First Security Corp. Chairman Marriner S. Eccles; Anderson, Clayton & Co. Chairman Lamar Fleming Jr.; Under Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler; Federated Department Stores Chairman Fred Lazarus Jr.; Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller; A.F.L.-C.I.O. Research Director Stanley Ruttenberg; American Farm Bureau Federation President Charles B. Shuman; Bank of America Chairman Jesse W. Tapp; Ford Motor Co. Finance Committee Chairman Theodore O. Yntema...
...will spawn twisters. Next step will be to exercise a sort of birth control over the violent storms, which last year killed 49 people in the U.S. and did at least $50 million worth of damage. No one knows yet how this control can be accomplished, but Bureau Meteorologist Clayton Van Thullenar says: "If we were not dreamers to some extent, we wouldn't be doing this...
...Nobel Laureate Harold Clayton Urey* proposed a bold new theory that accounts for the formation of the universe and suggests that the moon may be at least 100 million years older than the earth. In the beginning, said Urey. the explosion of a supernova some 5 billion years ago splattered the space around it with cooling cosmic dust. As particles of matter caromed into each other and stuck, moon-sized bodies were formed. These, too, collided with each other and grew into planets. Somehow, the clump of material that men now know as the moon escaped collision and floated free...
...likely to last. After a difficult day, Gleason issued from his penthouse at the George V looking, in spotless maroon jacket and pink shirt, like an Alp covered with wild flowers. He proceeded to the Olympia Music Hall, where his jazzbo buddies Pee Wee Russell and Buck Clayton were playing. Clayton dragged him onstage, and Gleason, whose French is limited to "encore doo van," got howls with a Gallic doubletalk routine. Later, he joked with French Clown Jacques Tati and wandered off to find late-evening brandy with his jazzmen and some 50 new fans...
...worked out the strategy for their bill, or settled on any private school aid compromise. Nor had the White House yet begun to line up votes for a measure that faces tough conservative opposition-with or without the hierarchy's loan amendments. Many Congressmen agreed with Chairman Adam Clayton Powell of the House Education and Labor Committee: "It's dead...