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...Alfred) B. (for Bing) Drastrup, 49, was named president of Pittsburgh's A. M. Byers Co., biggest U.S. maker of wrought iron, replacing L. F. Rains, who is retiring after 23 years. Born in Copenhagen, Drastrup arrived in the U.S. in 1926, rounding out his schooling at Indiana University. He wanted to keep on going around the world, made it to the West Coast, but then retraced his steps and joined Byers in 1931 as a plant auditor. He rose through operations and sales to executive vice president last February...
...which might have occurred had the Soviet Union been willing to begin to cooperate with other nations in . . . what offers so much to fear, so much to hope. Nevertheless, there is much to be accomplished in the way of economic and humanitarian gains. There is no miracle to be wrought overnight. But a program can be made and vitalized to assure that atomic energy can bring to millions a better way of life. To achieve that result is our firm resolve...
...Murano masters' fragile new pieces, designed by 64 artists of ten nations. Among the glass doves, sea monsters and slender figurines was evidence that some painters had found the medium too unfamiliar and inflexible. French Architect-Painter Le Corbusier had ignored the fragility of glass and wrought a massive form which he called Architectural Harmony. France's Georges Braque's facial silhouettes on a blue salad bowl were clumsy. But the U.S.'s Alexander Calder's finely drawn glass wire twisted into a bird form intriguingly suggested a pigeon in a jato takeoff. Pablo Picasso...
Much of what the Communists have wrought in China was begun before them by the revolution of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek; the Communists simply stole the revolution by deceit and mutiny while the country struggled against Japan. That power could not have been won without the carefully measured direction, aid and comfort of Communist Russia. The Communist rise in China might have been forestalled by wiser, firmer policies of China's Western friends. But what was relevant to the rest of the world last week was that China's Communists had been able to assemble...
...history and political geography from R.O.T.C., revised both courses and put its own faculty members in charge. Princeton, Ohio Wesleyan, and a handful of others have adopted similar schemes. Main stumbling blocks for most schools: lack of necessary funds and opposition from campus R.O.T C. officers to any change wrought by civilians...