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Died. Leonard Carmichael, 74, scientist, educator and the former secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. During his 11 years with the Smithsonian, Carmichael expanded and modernized "the nation's attic," and later, as vice president of the National Geographic Society, he sponsored the work of Archaeologist Louis S.B. Leakey and Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau...
...father once said that if I were cast ashore on a desert island I'd organize the grains of sand," Mrs. Post told friends. With that same gift for organization, she prepared carefully for the future of her estates. Hillwood and its treasures have been willed to the Smithsonian Institution. Topridge will be used by seminars of C.W. Post College, while the Palm Beach property has been donated to the Federal Government for use by foreign dignitaries. None of the storied retreats will belong in the future to any single individual, which perhaps is just as well...
...simple matter of good faith." He and his family, Moynihan vowed, had tried to take advantage of the increasingly unused facility, even dining now and again-all alone-in its restaurant ("best Chinese cuisine in town"). Continued the Ambassador: "If we could turn it over to the Smithsonian it would make a marvelous memorial to a certain kind of mentality. But that isn't really practical, is it? I don't need it so I have got rid of it like we agreed to do. Let this sad ending be a lesson to the next U.S. Administration tempted...
...shirts with 100 sledgehammers hammering all their might on a hundred anvils and artillery," wrote Painter Thomas Eakins to his sister Fanny about the Boston Jubilee in the summer of 1869. The letter, one of 20 recently given to the Archives of American Art, a part of the Smithsonian complex in Washington, D.C., went on to observe that "Bostonians have music on the brain." Added the proper Philadelphian: "God forbid they should get art there, or they will get some hundred firemen to copy a Jerome or Meissonier a thousand times bigger than the original to hang up in their...
...West, Fla. The 23-ft.-long submersible, designed by famed Inventor-Oceanographer Edwin A. Link-whose son, E. Clayton Link, 31, was one of the four men on board-seemed more than equal to the task. Since it began operating as an oceanographic research vessel for the Smithsonian Institution two years ago, Sea-Link* had easily plunged to depths of 1,000 ft. Last week, as the minisub maneuvered in swift currents of the Gulf Stream, routine turned abruptly into tragedy...