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Marion Willard Boyer, 49, up-from-the-ranks Hoosier who is vice president in charge of manufacturing for Esso Standard Oil Co., was named general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, to succeed Carroll L. Wilson, who resigned in August. Boyer fitted the pattern the AEC was looking for: a production man with a research background. Boyer, a chemical engineer, was making three times as much at Esso as the $20,000 the AEC will...
...Winston Churchill had won his argument for keeping the old chamber's rectangular shape against those who favored a semicircular pattern. "The party system," said Churchill, "is much favored by an oblong form of chamber. It is easy for an individual to move through those insensible gradations from left to right, but the act of crossing the floor [to change parties] is one which requires serious consideration. I am well-informed on this matter for I have accomplished that difficult process not only once but twice...
...innocent helplessness of its heroes that gives The Twenty-Fifth Hour its heavy coating of irony. Men, Gheorghiu is saying, no longer think in terms of individuals or their happiness. Human life has ceased to mean anything except as a cog in some machine or pattern. Production, material results, categories, statistics-these are all that count. The criminals are not so much the Nazis and the Communists as the big-machine boys everywhere. And of all the nations in the world, says Gheorghiu, it is the U.S. that most fervently worships the twin cults of bigness and the machine. Author...
...Merk's pattern is completed by his last section on significance. It is a pattern that can be criticized as too rigid for handling historical situations. But backed up, as it is, by careful documentation and a concise literary style, the product is a history which is penetrating yet readable...
...talent is not on a grand scale; it consists in simplifying the obvious. One of the best paintings on view was nothing more than a head-on view of a Dutch windmill and a couple of fishing boats. Gromaire had reduced his picture-postcard subject to a boldly geometrical pattern of intense colors that fixed, without frippery, the spirit of the scene...