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...been in on the groundwork of efforts to pass the law were jubilant. But few were as surprised as Morgan, now general manager of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. "After the Republicans took over, we thought there was no hope of a new tax law in the next few years," he said. "We had resolved to bide our time...
Reischauer, who held a full-time State Department position in 1945 and 1946 and helped to lay the groundwork for the Japanese peace treaty, added that he himself had not been called for State Department consultation since the spring...
...disliked landlords. East Pakistanis responded by voting the many-sided opposition local control of half of Pakistan. Mohammed Ali, a shrewd politician, had taken to East Pakistan's hustings in person to avert a rout, but not in time. This week he met Suhrawardy to lay the groundwork for settling East Pakistan's legitimate grievances. The alternative: a mounting East Pakistan demand for provincial autonomy on domestic issues, which would divide the nation in politics as it is now divided by geography...
...universe, and through Paul Mangelsdorf, he has helped develop hybrid corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented the iron lung, developed a treatment for pernicious anemia, and through the work of Bacteriologist John Enders, laid the groundwork for a safe polio vaccine. One scientist, the late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Oct. 12), made the blood bank possible; another, Chemist Robert Woodward, developed a theory that may lead to the synthesis of terramycin and aureomycin...
Such neat man-to-man passing around the conference table was the result of intensive groundwork outside. For months a working-level group, on which the U.S. was represented by State Department Counselor Douglas MacArthur II (nephew of the general),- held consultations in Paris exploring the divergencies in each nation's policies, and mapped out the areas of fundamental agreement. In Berlin, the same group met daily last week, before each session, to coordinate tactics and policies...