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...Laboratory in 1940, was in Honolulu Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese began dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. Dodging flak showers, Civilian Northrup dashed to the burning Navy Yard, helped put out submarine-detection devices from a patrol boat in pitching seas. In 1948, when Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss persuaded the Administration to establish an atomic-detection unit, selfless Scientist Northrup was borrowed by the Air Force, named technical director of something called AFOAT-1, a special project of the Air Force Office of Atomic Energy so secret that his bosses refused to say they knew...
...Meister Elgar," said Richard Strauss, "is the first English progressive musician." The year was 1902, and Strauss had just heard Edward Elgar's massive oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius. Since then, Gerontius has remained one of the most widely praised-and least frequently heard -monuments of English music. Last week Manhattan concertgoers had a chance to hear the full Gerontius score for the first time in a quarter-century. The occasion: a performance by the New York Philharmonic and the Westminster Choir under Guest Conductor Sir John Barbirolli...
Organized by Michel J. Strauss '59 and Michael C. D. Macdonald '60, the show will be comprised of approximately 120 objects lent by 35 Harvard and Radcliffe students...
...budget has resulted in the most serious split in his official family in the six years of his administration. Aligned with the President: Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson and Budget Director Maurice Stans, who believe that a balanced budget is simply an act of fiscal good faith; Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss and Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, who accept the results as a symbol of good management and proper Republican conservatism. Aligned against the President: Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers, and to a lesser degree, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming. In tune...
...Mackinac Island Conference, at which Republicans set foreign-policy aims. The unrest reaches into the Republican National Committee, which as part of its rebuilding is trying to reach labor leaders disgruntled at the Democrats, has been hampered by recent antilabor broadsides of Postmaster General Summerfield and Commerce Secretary Strauss...