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...worked day and night to get ready for the U.S. series of shots. In the Government's nuclear laboratories at Los Alamos, N. Mex., and Livermore, Calif., scientists were turning mock-up models of weapons into hardware that could be exploded. In Washington, a shabby grey building named Barton Hall, tucked away near the Lincoln Memorial, suddenly became one of the most important structures in town. There Joint Task Force 8-the nucleus of the U.S. testing effort-was preparing for the huge job of transporting the scientists' devices to the far islands of the Pacific, firing them...
...Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to suggest the right man for the tough job of building Task Force 8. McCone's answer was brief: "Get Starbird." Within days, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, 49, was squeezing his lanky frame (6 ft. 5 in.) behind a desk in Barton Hall, a building saved from the wrecker's hammer by the sudden need for a temporary headquarters for the task force. A handsome, scholarly and reserved West Pointer, Starbird finished a respectable seventh in the pentathlon at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. As McCone claimed...
Such purposeful foolery, cooked up by Freberg in cooperation with the Manhattan ad agency he whimsically refers to as Batten, Barton, Durstine & Yangpoo, have helped make a flamboyant. 43-year-old businessman named Jeno Paulucci (pronounced Puh-loo-chee) the nation's most successful manufacturer of Chinese food. Barely 15 years old, Paulucci's Duluth-based Chun King Corp. now rings up more than half of all U.S. sales of packaged Chinese food. Chun King's gross climbed 15% to $30 million last year, and Paulucci-who owns the whole company-expects a still fatter gain this...
...Giant Keepers. The American Association of Theatre Organ Enthusiasts numbers more than 1,500 devotees of the Mighty Wurlitzer and its cousins, the Silver Throated Barton, the Kilgen Wonder Organ, the Möller De Luxe, the Marr & Colton Symphonic Registrator. Among the cultists...
Deering led the Crimson with 17 points, followed by Denny Lynch and Kelley with 14 and Borchard with 12. Barton topped the Indians with 18, as Gene Augustine held Spahn to 17, 12 below his total against the Crimson the last time around...