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Beyond the Church. Daly's father founded the firm 50 years ago to specialize in church architecture, but under Leo Jr. it was moved far afield since World War II. About half of its work is designing such military projects as blastproof silos for Titan missiles DEW-line facilities in the Arctic and the big SAC underground command post near Omaha. Dalys also designed Boeing's big computer center in Seattlen and a $4,700,000 physics lab at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Til. Daly's 300-man staff is now working on 60 projects worth...
...Afield. Defending untidiness may be a strange crusade for a fashion columnist. But Katharine Whitehorn is that kind of fashion columnist. The world of haute couture distresses her: " 'A useful little dress' means one with no distinguishing characteristics; 'romantic' means 'cleft to the waist.' " She regularly takes excursions far afield. Sometimes she drafts axioms that are applicable to the opposite sex: "No nice men are good at getting taxis." "If your wife looks like a sow's ear, try dipping into the silken purse." She excoriates local hairdressers: "I left the salon...
...reasons of realism as well as low costs, Hollywood directors have for years sought their scenery abroad. But television, content to develop its talent for staging the eruption of Vesuvius in a studio closet, has rarely ventured far afield. Next season, viewers will see a brave pioneer bust out of the closet onto the Còte d'Azur and points north. The pioneer: a hammy comedy serial about an American nightclub act in Europe titled Harry's Girls (NBC), which is filming 13 of its 26 half-hour shows on the French Riviera...
Marinas & Uranium. In search of diversification, Socony has in the past year investigated 123 projects, from oil-fired air conditioners to marinas and country clubs. Last week Socony bought nine plants producing paints and industrial coatings from Martin Marietta Corp. Some other companies wander farther afield: Kerr-McGee bought a railroad tie producer, Tidewater a uranium mine in Wyoming and the exploration rights for diamonds in Hottentot Bay, South West Africa. Kern County Land Co., a California oil producer, gets more than half its gross revenues from turning out auto parts...
...growing Salinger cult. The heroes of the saga, as everyone knows, are or were seven children (two are now dead), the offspring of a Jewish-Irish vaudeville team. Super-intellegent from birth, they started in rotation on a radio quiz kid show. Grown-ups now, they are spread far afield: Buddy teachers English at an upstate New York girl's college; Walker is a priest; Boo Boo a Westchester matron; Zooey a rising TV actor; and Franny a college student. The greatest of them all, however, was Seymour, who committed suicide on vacation in an earlier Salinger story, "A Perfect...