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...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 more than...
...some of them, aided by Mayer's lyrics, are corking good. Corbett's title song. "William Had the Words!" had people humming at intermission, and his parody in song of the old musical No, No, Nanook (which features the magnificent ditty "Hark, hark, hark, hark, the call of the arctic") is brilliant...
...Port of Whittier [Feb. 21], with its excellent facilities, adverse weather, close proximity to Anchorage and the possible low price of $800,000, seems to me to be a ready-made nerve center for Arctic exploration. The National Science Foundation should certainly investigate this possibility...
...serviceman now spends 50% to 80% of his time in schools, says a report issued last week by Columbia University's Teachers College. The military has 300,000 students in schools all over the world, from Arctic huts to the National War College. In the U.S. alone are 300 military schools teaching 4,000 courses, from the three-R level to the Ph.D. Even the raw recruit now spends a third of his time in a classroom; the general gets the equivalent of two or three years of graduate study. To keep everyone learning off-duty as well...
...spent Christmas with U.S. troops in the Arctic, and now New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 74, was headed the other way, saying, "I don't want to slight the South Pole." He will spend Yuletide with the men assigned to U.S. Antarctic bases. It might be chilly, but the trip offers an unaccustomed bonus. Spellman will celebrate three Christmas Masses because of the international date line; a midnight Mass at McMurdo, then an 800-mile flight for a Christmas Day Mass at Byrd, and finally across the date line for another midnight Mass at the Amundsen-Scott...