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...Fearful that the U.S. missile-satellite effort may cause other sciences to be neglected, Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt warned that "hasty expedients may, while promising immediate advantage, weaken rather than advance our long-range scientific endeavor." Said he: "I sincerely hope that no scientific chauvinism will lead us down ill-considered pathways toward goals which may be more glitter than gold...
...drained his vitality and transformed the buoyant commander of World War II into a tired old man. But as the President of the U.S. plunged eagerly into a hectic round of private talks and public appearances, fear gave way to reassurance. "Ike's smile," reported Paris' Journal du Dimanche, "has again played its magic role...
...York's Consolidated Edison Co. is one of the pioneers, in 1952 underwrote the cost of setting up a consultation clinic at New York University-Bellevue Medical Clinic which has since been joined by 13 other companies, including Bell Telephone Laboratories, Metropolitan Life Insurance, the New York Times. Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, Allis-Chalmers and Boeing Airplane all have excellent and extensive programs of their own for rehabilitating alcoholics. Scores of other companies have informal programs or refer their workers to outside clinics, psychiatric help or such organizations as Alcoholics Anonymous, Chicago's Portal House, Boston...
...appointment of Agriculture Minister Roland Boscary-Monsservin. Newspaper reporters, tired of waiting for Gaillard and the politicians to reach agreement on the post, decided Boscary-Monsservin would do, telephoned him at 11:35 p.m. and said Gaillard wanted to see him. Boscary-Monsservin scurried over to the Palais du Louvre, and Gaillard ended the argument by appointing...
Last week Hocking tore himself away from his farm and journeyed to Manhattan to receive a prize that is highly coveted among scholars-the LeComte du Noüy Award, named after the late French biophysicist who tried so eloquently to reconcile the conflicts between science and religion. The award is given alternately in France and the U.S. each year for the book that most successfully points the way to "the greatest development of the spiritual thought of our epoch.'' The book Hocking won it for: The Coming World Civilization (Harper...