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Died. John Hays Hammond, 76, electronics inventor who at the age of 23 set up his Hammond Radio Research Laboratory, over the years collected some 350 patents for inventions ranging from the prototype of the modern vacuum radio tube, bought by RCA for $500,000 in 1926, to the first radio-guided torpedoes, while pouring his considerable royalties into his Gloucester, Mass., home, a massive Gothic castle complete with moat, drawbridge, and a 10,000-pipe, 100-stop organ (he was no kin to the Hammond organ family); of hepatitis; in Gloucester...
...Society must partially attribute its success to Barry, it must also thank the liberal Republicans who did little--or too little too late--to stop him. As one Society member observed, the moderates' silence created a vacuum. The voice of liberal Republicanism was muted. Republican newspaper publishers, and even the more Democratic editors, were (and probably still are) genuinely worried about the GOP's future. Anything that could be labled "anti-Goldwater" or "moderate Republicanism" was good copy...
...Barry, and the moderates' silence, only created the vacuum. The Society had to help fill it. As the different GOP candidates vied (or restrained from vying) for the nomination, the Society realized its opportunity...
...Secondly, the compartmentalization of disciplines fails the casual and serious student of the USSR by not presenting an integrated view of the country. The study of Russian government is onesided without some understanding of the Soviet economy and cultural patterns, just as the study of Soviet literature in a vacuum cannot provide an adequate insight into the USSR. Similarly, this specialization has resulted in important aspects of the Soviet Union being completely overlooked, such as the multinational, non-Slav facet of the USSR, traditional Russian norms, etc. Lastly, the material covered in the various courses often tends to overlap...
...shape of some 400 legislative housekeeping jobs; thus the Democrats had to depend on Republican holdovers to turn on the lights, call the roll, and even chauffeur the official Cadillacs when the legislature convenes this week. The Democrats also failed to appoint committee chairmen, and in the vacuum Rockefeller happily stole the Democrats' thunder, announced some items of his own program, including several proposals that minority Democrats had been vainly pushing for years...