White, Alfred

White, Alfred D., Max Frisch the Reluctant Modernist (Lewinston, 1995)... 

Werner, Alfred, 417 Wet gases, 115-116 White tin, 250 Wilkins, Maurice, 628 Wine, 14,592... 

Fifteen prominent chemical engineers first met in New York more than 60 years ago to plan a continuing literature for their rapidly growing profession. From industry came such pioneer practitioners as Leo H. Baekeland, Arthur D. Little, Charles L. Reese, John V. N. Dorr, M. C. Whitaker, and R. S. McBride. From the universities came such eminent educators as William H. Walker, Alfred H. White, D. D. Jackson, J. H. James, Warren K. Lewis, and Harry A. Curtis. H. C. Parmelee, then editor of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, served as chairman and was joined subsequently by S. D. Kirkpatrick as consulting editor. 

FIGURE 79. Black-and-white reproduction of the color photograph of the 1671 oil painting, The Alchemist, by Hendrick Heerschop, in the Collection of Isabel and Alfred Bader. See color plates. The author expresses his gratitude to Dr. Bader for permission to reproduce the image and also for his helpful discussion of the Bush drawing (see Figure 75). 

Figure 79 was executed by Hendrick Heerschop in 1671 and is titled The Alchemist. It is a black-and-white reproduction of a color photograph of a beautiful oil painting from the Isabel and Alfred Bader Collection. The alchemist appears to smoke his pipe while watching a distillation. Hopefully, he is not distilling diethyl ether. 

The author is grateful to Dr. Alfred Bader for making this photographic reproduction available and providing permission to reproduce it in black and white, as well as in color. 

One person who did seriously consider this question was Alfred Jenkins, the China specialist on the White House staff beginning in late 1966. In one of his first reports to Rostow, Jenkins professed himself disappointed with the focus on issues of travel, trade, and Chinese representation in the UN. These struck him as potentially useful but peripheral measures in view of the uncertainties of the Cultural Revolution. He suggested that, for the moment, the administration should concentrate its planning resources on issues... to do with China in the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific and proceeded to list a remarkably farsighted set of strategic issues that few other officials had emphasized in connection with China policy ... 

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