Issues

The release of this favorable report on the National Bureau of Standards, shortly and fortuitously preceded by the official reinstatement of Dr. Astin as NBS Director, mercifully rings down the curtain on a show that should never have opened. It also provides a crisp analysis of the problems confronting a Federal agency that does not receive adequate funds for support of its authorized programs.

An article based on Professor Ewald's address as Retiring President of the American Crystallographic Association at its meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 24, 1953.

Symbols Proposed at Bagnères Congress

AD‐X2 Declared to be Without Merit

In Physical and Biological Sciences

For Discovery of Phase Contrast

Established at Crerar Library

37 Awarded for Physical Research

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