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Empires & Operators. By the folklore of Washington, the man who manages the operational functions of an organization will mold its policy in the long run. This has come to be an accepted law of administrative life, as solid as Newton's laws of motion. Consequently, career State Department officials respected Dean Acheson's concern with operational details. They could not at first understand John Foster Dulles, the broad-picture man, who believed that the State Department had been distracted from its policymaking job by its preoccupation with miscellaneous operating functions-foreign aid, technical aid, propaganda, etc. When Dulles...
...Hans Sloane, a prosperous 18th century physician who developed a passion for collecting, scurried over the world like a pack rat, assembling books, manuscripts, Roman, Egyptian and Asiatic antiquities, coins, medals and works of art. Sloane's friends (among them: Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren, Alexander Pope) sent him odd things from everywhere. One friend, Poet Thomas Hearne, versified that he had collected for the good doctor...
...Isaac Newton...
Modern scientists still feel as Newton did about the great ocean of undiscovered truth. In Scientific American, some topflight authorities describe the challenging mysteries that keep today's scientists baffled...
...William James Erwin, 52, vice president and general manager of South Carolina's Riegel Textile Corp., was named president of Dan River Mills, headless since President Russell Newton was ousted last October in a company shakeup. Erwin started as a textile engineer with Virginia's Consolidated Mills in 1921, switched to South Carolina's Republic Cotton Mills in 1934, to J. P. Stevens...