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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he would not comment specifically on the problems he would deal with, Kistiakowsky said that "my office will strive to mobilize for the President the best objective scientific and engineering advice." One of the original members of the President's Science Advisory Committee, Kistiakowsky will take office in mid-July, replacing James R. Killian...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Kistiakowsky Will Replace Killian As Science Adviser to President | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, and chairman of the committee to choose a successor to President Wilbur K. Jordan, declined last night to comment on the report of Mrs. Bunting's selection. "I have no comment--either to confirm or deny," Schlesinger said...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Dean of Students at Rutgers May Become Next Radcliffe President | 5/27/1959 | See Source »

...center of nine concentric, transparent spheres, outside which was the Unmoved Mover who kept the whole machinery turning. To make the heavens jibe with Aristotle, the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy, in the 2nd century A.D., posited a universe of wheels within wheels called epicycles. Of this system, the best comment is perhaps that of Alphonso X of Castile, who said: "If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I should have recommended something simpler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Music of the Spheres | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Piccadilly Circus. In London, when the R.S.P.C.A. complained that she kept a mouse in a cage with a python, Pet Shop Owner Phyllis Cooper showed up in court with both animals, won dismissal by proving that they were practically buddies, provoked the prosecutor to comment: "In no other country would a mouse invoke the protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...listened carefully but without comment to Herter's presentation of the plan, which includes at least half a dozen modifications of long-held Western views on Berlin, German unification, and European security...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Herter Reveals Plan for Peace; Ike Proposes Research Project | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

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