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...Commerce Secretary, Connor will head up an awkwardly diversified department that has 33,538 employees, operates on a $4.5 billion budget, and includes the Bureau of the Census, Patent Office, Bureau of Public Roads, Weather Bureau and Area Redevelopment Administration. But the true mis sion of the Secretary of Commerce cannot be written into an organization chart. In its simplest terms, it is to promote confidence in the Administration among businessmen. That is something at which President Johnson himself works almost full time, and he is awfully good at it. In John Connor, the President should have an able helper...
...very casualness of the static test, the ease with which the engineers stuck to their strict schedule, that made the test so impressive. The plain cylinder, 60 ft. long and 13 ft. in diameter, made by Lockheed Propul sion Co. for the Air Force, was the biggest solid-propellant booster ever tested, and the simple fact that it developed 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust, exactly as planned, was a technical triumph. Lockheed engineers also man aged to test several new rocket-motor features on their roaring monster. The casing was made of a new nickel steel, only...
Gerhard's affinity for Camus first led him to consider writing an opera based on the late French author's bleak first novel, The Stranger, and he still plans to do the work-if he can win a commis sion. But while lying ill two years ago, the musical approach to the message of The Plague struck him. "It is man's bestiality to man, and the pestilence is the fight against terror." That message, he says, "took my imagination by storm...
...Faith, his 13-week series of lectures on The Book of Genesis captured a regular Sunday audience of more than 3,000,000 and drew more than 15,000 letters-by far the best response to any program put on by the National Council of Churches in televi sion history. Last Sunday, Frontiers of Faith presented the first lecture of a new series by Lutheran Minister Staack. His theme this year is "living personalities of the Old Testament," and it promises to do just as well as Genesis...
...that it is better to divorce than to burn. The European aim is to keep the family under one roof; the American aim is to provide personal happiness. Partly as a result, the U.S. has developed what sociologists call "serial polygamy," often consisting of little more than a succes sion of love affairs with slight legal trimmings. Cynics point out that serial polygamy was a fact even in Puritan times, when men had three or four wives because women were apt to die young; nowadays, divorce rather than death provides variety...