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...With the know-how under his hat and the dyes and designs in his work bag, Bailey set up a laboratory-workshop in suburban Lima. Using workmen whom he and his blonde Peruvian artist-colleague Grace Escardo trained themselves, Bailey was soon producing a great variety of cleanly designed, finely wrought textiles, lacquer-work, silver, wooden utensils, even furniture...
Veto Trouble. Mr. Baruch said that if all goes well the U.S. will cease making bombs, "dispose of" existing bombs, and turn over its know-how to ADA. It will give up superiority in a gradual, step-by-step procedure if other nations sign the ADA charter-and if, in matters covered by the charter, they give up the one-power veto which now prevents penalizing any member of the Big Five unless all concur. Baruch proposed "condign punishments" for violations, which would be "stigmatized as international crimes." and he said that punishment must not be avoided by means...
...still has The Bomb. With that in mind, U.S. policy-makers last week gave Bernard Baruch a clear directive on the course to take as U.S. member of the atomic commission. If Russia really cooperates in U.N. and the peace, the U.S. will gradually turn her atomic secrets and know-how over to international control. If Russia stalls, the U.S. will stall in the commission-and keep right on making bombs at Oak Ridge (see SCIENCE...
Jimmy Forrestal, whose 22 years in Wall Street, including three as president of Dillon, Read & Co., had given him the financial know-how for the $30,000 a year job, had been offered it last week. (Onetime U.S. Budget Director Lewis W. Douglas had turned it down.) Although Forrestal was mumchance, one sage Washington dopester said: "It's as sure as anything can be these days that Jimmy will take...
Last October Funston, an ex-radiator manufacturing and WPB executive, took over the 123-year-old college's presidency. His first businesslike step: to try to take academic control from Trinity's faculty committees. Shepard, implicitly questioning Funston's educational know-how, fought the move as "autocratic." When Funston got the chance to force his outspoken star to resign, he took...