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...Approved, in the House, construction of a new $36 million Smithsonian Institution building on Washington's Mall, to be called the Museum of History and Technology, after listening to Michigan's ratchet-tongued Clare Hoffman admit to the "overpowering" thought, upon visiting the Smithsonian, that "after all, I do not as an individual amount to very much in this world, never did and never will...
...First Ladies' Day at the Smithsonian Institution, the nation's attic. With sartorial deference to mistresses of the White House, past and present, Dwight Eisenhower donned a white dinner jacket to help Mamie open the institution's new display of old finery worn by the nation's First Ladies...
...Smithsonian had worked for two years freeing the historic gowns from their small, musty cases and setting them in period restorations of White House rooms. Mamie Eisenhower, in white brocade with fan to match, spotted a lace wedding dress that she had worn on a happy July day in 1916. Gazing misty-eyed, she tugged fondly on a presidential...
Whipple's joint appointments are expected to set a pattern by which high level Smithsonian astronomers would teach and do research here. Whipple said that this would be most advantageous in the training of astronomers at the University...
...formal merger of the two institutions is involved, and each will retain its individual observatories and other properties. Most of the Smithsonian Observatory's work will be done here, where research will be correlated, but it will continue to utilize its observatories in Chile and California...