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...Maximilian Schuler, a German professor of applied mechanics, discovered in 1923 that acceleration would have no effect on a hypothetical pendulum the length of the earth's radius; the M.I.T. device simulates Schuler's effect electronically...
Defense's Charles E. Wilson, 66, who wanted to retire long before last week's National Guard explosion (see below), but has promised to stay until the 1958 military budget has cleared Congress. To succeed Charlie Wilson, Ike leans toward General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, who recently retired as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. Since the National Security Act specifically precludes military men from the Defense Secretary's job, Ike must get congressional dispensation to name Gruenther. If either Congress or Gruenther demurs, the post may go to another able candidate. Air Force Secretary Donald...
...terrier-tough Charles S. Thomas, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, since 1954, the Secretary of the Navy who helped goad conservative Navy thinking toward such innovations as guided-missile ships. Still another: retiring Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and onetime Eisenhower Chief of Staff Albert Maximilian Gruenther...
...Billie Dawn of Born Yesterday, Mary sashayed through her first comedy role without a live audience, and, as before with Peter Pan, gave one of the rare performances of the TV season. With a mincing, floozy strut, she sparkled (with $1,000,000 worth of Harry Winston jewels, two Maximilian minks and five Main-bocher originals) through that hilarious old gin-rummy game, and asked a visiting U.S. Senator's wife: "You want to wash your hands or anything, honey?" She also marked the beginning of her social awakenings by defining "peninsula" as "that new medicine." As Harry Brock...
Died. Camilla Maximilian Cianfarra. 49, topflight New York Times correspondent (Rome, 1935-41 and 1946-51; Mexico City, 1942-46; Madrid since 1951). who in 1949 scored a world newsbeat on the Vatican archaeologists' claim to have found St. Peter's tomb beneath the cathedral's high altar in Rome; in the collision-sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, off Nantucket (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...