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...Turning Point." To honor the sooth anniversary of the publication of Volume I of Diderot's Encyclopedic, France has embarked on a year-long series of celebrations. The Archives Nationales de France have published an exact reproduction of Diderot's prospectus. The Bibliotheque Nationale has put on a massive exhibition of his original manuscripts and illustrations. Meanwhile,the Sorbonne has commissioned six monographs on various aspects of the work; and the Ministry...
...year-except in the sense that he survived it. By his firm and skillful handling of the Japanese Treaty conference at San Francisco, Acheson got at least his forepaws out of the public's doghouse, and proved once again that he would be a masterful Secretary of State if all the U.S.'s enemies could be disposed of with a gavel. Yet all through 1951, Acheson's State Department was still caught as tight as Brer Rabbit in Tar Baby. The useless and impossible effort to justify its past mistakes consumed its energies. In this year-long...
...first Government witness in the year-long antitrust suit against 17 investment banking houses (TIME, Dec. 11, 1950), Railroad Magnate Robert R. Young was in a saucy mood. Taking the stand to argue that competitive bidding on railroad bonds should be compulsory, Young last week fixed a cross-examining defense counsel with a stare. Said Young icily: "You are one of the few men here who is wiser than I am." Federal Judge Harold R. Medina cuffed him right back. Young's campaign to get competitive bidding on the Cincinnati Union Terminal Association in 1939, said Medina, had been...
This turn through current events is a year-long affair required of all seniors. College officials were-worried five years ago that their spirited graduate would not know what was going on in the world when he emerge from the North Woods. So an ambitious program to teach him was instituted by President John S. Dickey, then in his first year of office...
...School of Education will conduct a study of 400 children in seven Newton kindergartens starting November 1, a research associate disclosed yesterday. U.S. Department of Health funds amounting to $45,000 will finance the year-long project...