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Like a homeowner with a rainy Sunday on his hands, Dr. Leonard Carmichael, new head of Washington's Smithsonian Institution, decided it was high time he tidied up the "Nation's Attic." After a long, appalled look, he reported to the House Appropriations Committee that the dingy stone museum needs a million-dollar spring cleaning. All the exhibits of man's skill, from the stone age to the jet plane, said he, are crammed into crowded displays that belong to the "horse & buggy and gaslight...
...world's principal research centers for anthropologists, zoologists, biologists, botanists, geologists and specialists in solar radiation, the Smithsonian surfers troubles that are continually compounded. Already it has 33,200,000 assorted curios and relics in its catalogue and more pour in every year...
...once called Rienzi), General Phil Sheridan's horse; the bones of "Swanky Dan," a prize bull; Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, a collection of dresses worn by former First Ladies; a collection of fleas from G.I.s in Korea. Last year, if there had been room, the Smithsonian staff could have displayed 607,354 new acquisitions, including a couple of Japanese eels, an adjustable, double-ended wrench (circa 1856), 18 boxes of bricks from the White House renovation, one astral lamp (complete with glass shade fitted for electric light), a phanerogam, the original model of Emmons' "Pelvi...
...first man-carrying plane to exceed the speed of sound (TIME, June 21, 1948). Now in the Smithsonian Institution, the chunky (34½ ft. long, 28 ft. wingspread) ship was built by Bell Aircraft Corp., had a rocket motor with 6,000 lbs. of thrust and was designed to fly more than 1,000 m.p.h...
Organized by the French Government and circulated by the Smithsonian Institute, the exhibit includes works by such French artists as Clouet, Poussin, Degas, Fragonard, and Claude...