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...York Times Magazine, the Carnegie Institution's respected President Vannevar Bush, onetime chairman of the Pentagon's Research and Development Board, decried the whole spirit of the inquiry: "In looking at the scene, scientists generally see only slightly concealed an inclination to exclude anyone who does not conform completely to the judgment of those who in one way or another have acquired authority...
Last week the Carnegie Corporation granted $50,000 for a fresh approach to studying the universe. Urged on by Dr. Vannevar Bush of the Carnegie Institution, scientists will try to make telescopes work better without getting bigger...
...members: General Omar Bradley, Scientist Vannevar Bush, President Milton S. Eisenhower of Penn State College, Office of Defense Mobilization Chief Arthur Flemming, former Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett, RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff...
...World War II, as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he bossed a $2 billion research program to develop radar, antiradar, various chemical warfare projects, and nuclear fission. Putting in some 250,000 miles of travel, bounded by Cambridge, Washington and Los Alamos, he deputized for Vannevar Bush, served as consultant for Major General Leslie Groves, was the No. I intermediary for scientists, generals and industrialists who helped fashion the Abomb. Since the war's end, he has spoken out forcefully for universal military training. Harvard this week announced Conant's retirement, effective Sept. 1, 1953> when...
...challenging situation." Adams, a Harvardman ('32) and investment banker, got Raytheon into fighting trim, soon stepped on to the bridge as executive vice president. Four years ago Laurence K. Marshall, who had founded the company in 1922 with the help of M.I.T.'s famed Scientist Vannevar Bush, retired as president, and Adams took over. Through Belmont Radio Corp., a Chicago subsidiary acquired at war's end, he had already put Raytheon heavily into television, turned out 100,000 sets before Korea cut back production and made Raytheon a war baby again...