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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Garrison Norton charged that a "dollar straitjacket" had "seriously hampered" missile research and development. As Norton told it, the Navy continually had to get approval from Comptroller McNeil to spend the skimpy R. & D. (research and development) funds voted by Congress. Asked the subcommittee's Counsel Edwin L. Weisl: What experts does McNeil have on his staff to advise him on R. & D. projects? Replied Norton: "None...
...judge was identified as gaunt, greying Judge Raulston Schoolfield, 51, unsuccessful 1954 candidate for governor against Frank Clement and currently president of two separate Tennessee segregation societies. Six years ago 13 teamsters, including Chattanooga Local 515's President Glenn W. Smith and Secretary-Treasurer Hubert L. Boling, were indicted for dynamiting and arson during organizing drives. The 13 came for arraignment before Judge Schoolfield, who carefully studied the evidence against them and decided it was "good." In fact, testified former Court Officer James W. West, Judge Schoolfield "seemed enthused" at the prospect-possibly because earlier the Teamsters Union...
Gervaise. Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry of rage at man's fate, diminished by French taste into a touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell (TIME...
...Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy, agreed with Bruner on the advisability of extending the functions of such a committee beyond a purely scientific aspect and added that the move was "very important for the national welfare. We want to improve the general intellectual climate across the country, and this might be a good start," he said...
Sputnik I, the Russian earth satellite launched on October 4, will plunge to earth sometime during the first week in January, Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, predicted yesterday...