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...endlessly flowing paper is controlled by colored tags and big "buck-slips." Congressional letters, of which the Pentagon gets about 300 a day, get a yellow "expedite" tag; an "urgent" tag is red, and one "rush-rush" marker is known as "the green hornet." An expert use of the buckslip-a small routing slip on which higher authority checks off directions such as "for action," "please brief for me," etc. -is an essential Pentagon skill. The classic story is one of a newly arrived Navy commander, snowed under with accumulating papers, who stumped over to an old hand behind...
Neville is a veteran of living on the edge of disaster. He was in Spain in 1936 when the Civil War broke out, in Warsaw in 1939 when the Nazis blitzed across the Polish border to start World War II. He has also followed gentler pursuits, e.g., bridge expert for the New York Herald Tribune. During his newspaper career, he got his first good look at the East. He set off on a westward jaunt around the world in 1940, reported the war's effects on Free China and Hong Kong, took a look behind the Japanese lines...
After 20 months of operation, the great 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain yielded its most significant discovery. Palomar's Dr. Milton La Salle Humason, a diffident, self-effacing expert whose own colleagues know almost nothing about him except his birthplace (Dodge Center, Minn.), last week announced that he had photographed the spectra of nebulae 360 million lightyears* away. He found that their light showed the mysterious "red-shift," indicating that they are moving away from the earth at 38,000 m.p.s.-one-fifth of the speed of light...
...Harvard 1926" is chiefly the product of Cornelius DuBois '26 and Charles J.V. Murphy '26. DuBois is a public opinion expert and partner in Cornelius DuBois & Company; Murphy is a writer for Life Magazine...
Died. Dr. Napoleao Laureano, 36, Brazilian surgeon and cancer expert, who spent his dying days in dramatizing his country's need for better clinics to detect and fight cancer (TIME, March 19); of cancer of the lymphatic tissues; in Rio de Janeiro...