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From Murray Hill the new clock's time signals will be distributed over the U.S. by the wires of the Bell System. They will govern radio and television stations, coaxial cables, even the operations of power networks. Bell's time clock will be checked periodically against the time of the U.S. Naval Observatory and the National Bureau of Standards. But no one expects that the three will ever get far out of step. Estimated variation in the Bell timer: one second in 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Clock to End Clocks | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...office in Woodbridge Hall, he would still stop now & then to level his Leica, snap a camera shot of a student, a building or a professor. But once in his office, seated at his 18th Century slant-top desk, Whitney Griswold proved he knows how to govern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Steady Hand | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

Second year Business School men will have less choice in courses they may take, John B. Fox, Assistant Dean of the School, announced last night. The effect of the new regulation, which will govern next year's curriculum, will be to restrict the number of general courses open to second year students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Tightens 2nd Year Program: Fewer General Courses | 5/31/1951 | See Source »

Though Pern operates a state essentially modeled on the classic Nazi-Fascist pattern, his regime is different in one other major respect. The handsome, strapping six-footer, whose athletic figure now sags just a bit with the weight of middle age (55), does not govern alone. Beside him rules his glittering wife Evita, a 5 ft. 2, pale-skinned, dark-eyed, dazzling blonde of 32. Their man & wife dictatorship has few precedents. Some have compared it with the dual reign of Spain's Ferdinand & Isabella. Perhaps a closer parallel in history was established by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Love in Power | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Andrew E. Norman '51, co-chairman of the American Patriots, issued the following statement last night: "We (the American Patriots) are deeply disturbed that the men who govern our naval affairs today have so little devotion to the traditions and history of this great country that they balk and whimper that the job might be tedious. American Patriots feel as ever that no expense and no effort must be spared The Monitor must be raised. There are higher authorities than Secretary Matthews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Decides Monitor Must Remain Sunk | 5/8/1951 | See Source »

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