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What Is Past, Is Prologue ANY VISITOR to Washington w h o passes the stately Archives Building must be impressed by the simple statement carved above the columns : " W h a t is past, is prologue." As this September issue of I / E C ' s 50th year of publication rolls off the presses, the A C S Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry will be putting the finishing touches on a p r o g r a m to mark its fiftieth year, a program to show, in the words of its chairman, t h a t " t o d a y ' s research knowledge contains t h e seeds of tomorrow's great technological advances, t h a t indeed w h a t is past, is but prologue." T h e time will be Tuesday morning a n d afternoon, September 9 ; the place, the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago, a n d the A C S 134th National Meeting. T h e Golden Anniversary Lectures will be presided over by D . O . M y a t t of Atlantic Research Corp., a former M a n a g i n g Editor of I / E C a n d now C h a i r m a n of the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Designed as an a t t e m p t to peer into the deep well-spring of present research knowledge, a n d to speculate on the challenges to development a n d utilization t h a t can be seen there, these lectures will show in their most practical sense the impact of science on society. At a special banquet on T u e s d a y evening, honoring the fiftieth anniversaries of the Division a n d of this Publication, M r . David E. Lilienthal, former C h a i r m a n of the Board of T V A , former C h a i r m a n of the Atomic Energy Commission, a n d now p a r t n e r in Development a n d Resources Inc., a consulting firm to advise foreign countries in their programs of economic a n d industrial develop ment, will be the featured speaker. M r . Lilienthal will have as his general subject the reverse of the day's technical program. H e will speak on the i m p a c t of society on science. Tuesday's technical p r o g r a m is not detailed, but it is star-studded, both in person a n d in subject. H e n r y Eyring, Farrington Daniels, R o b e r t R. Jeffries, John M a u c h l y , a n d A. H . Rubenstein will be the speakers; their subjects will be prologues to new chemicals a n d m a terials, to engineering economics, to process design and control, to automation, a n d to technological productivity. W e urge readers of I / E C to take a d v a n t a g e of this unsual program, to " m a k e a day of it." C o m e early, stay late. W e guarantee mental stimulation t h a t will be long-remembered.
