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Inspired by such exclamations, about 300 enthusiastic young Communists, with red roses and carnations in their hands and the Internationale on their lips, gathered at Paris' Gare du Nord on a chilly, drizzly morning, waiting for the Nord Express and their idol. But the Communist Party was not yet ready to expose the wonders of Soviet medicine to their view. At St. Quentin, 80 miles from Paris, the door of a special Polish private car attached to the Nord Express opened, and Thorez showed himself...
Benson also thinks the Agriculture Department can help in developing new markets abroad, and by encouraging industrial research into new uses for farm products. Says he: "I'd like to see Du Pont, for example, go into corn research and do for corn and its potential byproducts what they have already done for coal...
Testifying at the Du Pont antitrust trial in Chicago last week, General Motors Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. explained why Charles F. Kettering, the company's famed research wizard, never made the top policy committee. Sloan said that in 1943 he had proposed that the committee admit "Boss Ket," who invented the self-starter and helped in the development of many another product (e.g., the high-compression motor, leaded gasoline). But when Du Pont Chairman Lammot du Pont objected, Sloan felt that his reasons were valid. "We agreed," said Sloan, "that if [Ket] came on the committee, he would...
...most cases, Greenbrier's director, Dr. James P. Baker, has found that executives take treatment for ailments detected. Nine out of ten whose examinations show organic troubles undergo surgery or change their habits. Six out of ten patients found overweight start reducing. To help them, companies like Du Pont have developed special diets; Westinghouse's executive dining room features a 350-calorie "Waistliner" lunch each day and posts a calorie count after every item on its menu...
After Le Diable, Radiguet began to study the most famous of the French courtly novels, The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette (TIME, May 28, 1951), and was inspired to write Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel. "A chaste love story"-he called it-"as shocking as the least chaste...