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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...group were Secretary of State Christian Herter and Under Secretary C. Douglas Dillon; Defense Secretary Thomas Gates and General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone; Presidential Assistants (for national security) Gordon Gray and (for science) George Kistiakowsky. They were in rare unanimity on a general proposition. They intended to put it to the President that 1) the U.S. ought to continue the 14-month-old talks with Britain and the U.S.S.R. at Geneva on how to inspect and control any permanent test ban; 2) the U.S. should not promise to extend...
...year-old physicist who is the lab's director, told them what was inside the tank: an experimental reactor in which liquid fuel replaces the troublesome solid-fuel elements of conventional power reactors. "A very bold idea," conceded Professor Vasily S. Emelyanov, chief of the Russian group. Last week Dr. Weinberg cautiously told his laboratory mates that the reactor has now run long enough to be considered "a tenable engineering device...
Fairman is one of a small but growing group of U.S. heart patients who have been wired for living with a variety of pacemakers that are alike in principle but differ in detail. When a diseased heart stops or goes into fibrillation (a useless twitching and fluttering), it can often be restored to normal beat by a single electric shock. In more stubborn cases, small electrical impulses must be transmitted to the heart at a near normal pulse rate (60 to 72 per minute...
...Chairman Allan P. Kirby, 67. It was a bitter end to a 25-year association. Kirby's inherited Woolworth millions had bankrolled Bob Young from the 19305 onward, had put him in command of Alleghany, which controls the New York Central Railroad, the $3 billion Investors Diversified Services group, and 50% of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's Class B stock. Last week Wall Streeters were betting that Anita Young would place her considerable savvy and stockholding behind one or more of the high-powered outsiders who are eager to wrest control of Alleghany from Kirby...
...week Vickers-Armstrongs, maker of the turboprop Viscount and Vanguard, and English Electric Co., R.A.F. fighter-plane builder, sped up their longstanding merger talks. They also began courting Bristol Aircraft, maker of the turboprop Britannia. They feel they will need a big combine to compete against the Hawker-Siddeley Group and de Havilland Aircraft Co., which last month announced plans to merge. If stockholders approve, Hawker-Siddeley and de Havilland will become the biggest aircraft company in the Commonwealth (combined assets: $250 million...