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Because he has a $1 billion bakery empire that stretches from Britain to Australia, Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston is known as the "Barnum of Bread" (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week the Barnum of Bread rose some more. In a $32 million stock deal, Weston got control of Chicago's National Tea Co., fifth biggest U.S. market chain, with 1954 sales of $520 million. He did so by purchasing 544,000 shares (27%) of National Tea stock from Director John...
...Spur the Soviets. Murray did not succeed, however, in persuading his four fellow members of the AEC that this biggest show on earth would be worthwhile. Commissioners Lewis Strauss, Willard Libby, John von Neumann and Harold Vance formally replied: "It should be noted that Russian and other foreign observers were invited to the tests at Bikini in 1946, where they witnessed atomic explosions of previously unimaginable destructive force. This demonstration, however, did not persuade the Soviet government of the need to join with us and other nations in an effective system for the international control of atomic energy...
...excited babble of exploration and discovery. The first International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy was a conclave of adventurous men and optimists caught up in the dream of a peaceful atomic revolution. "Now everybody feels he can talk freely," exclaimed the ranking U.S. expert, Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, a man seldom moved to excitement. "It's a great emotion-you can feel it all over the place...
Pressure never bothered Willard Libby...
...boarding house near the University of California at Berkeley, a strapping, reddish-haired sophomore named Willard Frank Libby met two graduate students. Their talk about chemical research was so exciting that Libby forgot his yearning to be a mining engineer, and switched to chemistry. Because of that chance meeting, Willard Libby, 46, sat in Geneva's stately Palace of Nations this week as the ranking U.S. scientist and the chief U.S. spokesman at man's first international effort to release the unplumbed benefits of peaceful atomic energy...