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Department of Research. In its three hectic years, AEC has grown into something very like a federal department of research. Its three great national laboratories (Brookhaven on Long Island, Argonne at Chicago, and Oak Ridge, Tenn.) are becoming major centers of scientific life. Smaller AEC laboratories are sprouting up all over the country. At present the program employs about 6,500 scientists and technicians. On the vital problem of personnel, the report, signed by Chairman David E. Lilienthal and his four fellow commissioners, commented significantly: "The morale situation has recovered from a very low point...
Next day he was back at work behind his big oak desk in a huge, paneled room in the Ministry of Defense. He is easily accessible for interviews, at which he does nearly all the talking-in French, with a rasping Turkish accent. Midnight strollers in Damascus often see Zaim's Cadillac, preceded and followed by armored jeeps and outriders, speeding home from the Defense Ministry to the dictator's pretty young wife and two children (she is about to have a third...
Bakers & Blacksmiths. At Oxford, Lindsay was a rosy-cheeked scholar, with a wry Scottish wit and a taste for disreputable tweeds. In lofty, oak-beamed Balliol College hall, undergraduates crowded to hear his quiet-toned discourses, and at Balliol's long, oak-topped high-table with its silver candlesticks, notables came from all over the world to dine and talk with him. But in his spare time, when his Oxford duties were done, the master was apt to vanish...
Plagued by dysentery and mosquitoes, Cleaveland's men followed the paths their axmen hacked through the oak and hemlock. When food gave out, they broiled rattlesnakes, washed the meat down with rum. At the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the leader paced off a ten-acre town square in the New England tradition, and set some of his men to work building log-cabin shelters. Result: Cleveland, Ohio-lacking an "a" because the party's mapmaker left...
Died. Lieut. General Barton K. Yount (ret.), 65, who supervised the instruction of over 2,000,000 World War II flyers and technicians at 453 training schools; at Oak Creek Lodge, Ariz...