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Most kids go to camp to learn how to make lanyards and swim. But Chase Culeman-Beckman claims he got an education with more far-reaching implications. Now 19, Culeman-Beckman says in 1988 he went to day camp with Jacob Bernstein, son of former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, and Jacob told him that W. MARK FELT, associate director of the FBI during Watergate, was the shadowy source known as Deep Throat. Culeman-Beckman researched the theory for a high school history class and this summer copyrighted an essay supporting it. But Carl Bernstein says he never told Jacob...
...February 1956, with financing from Beckman Instruments Inc., he founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory with the goal of developing and producing a silicon transistor. He chose to establish this start-up near Palo Alto, where he had grown up and where his mother still lived. He set up operations in a storefront--little more than a Quonset hut--and hired a group of young scientists (I was one of them) to develop the necessary technology. By the spring of 1956 he had a small staff in place and was beginning to undertake research and development...
...group was in danger of breaking up. In fact, a few of the first recruits had already abandoned the lab for other jobs. To try to stabilize the organization, several of us went over Shockley's head, directly to Arnold Beckman, who had financed the start-up, suggesting that Shockley be removed from direct management of the lab and function only as a technical consultant...
Returners Mary Ellen Mangano and Sharon Beckman also add some consistent veteran experience to the team. Mangano in the freestyle sprints and Beckman in the longer races and the Individual Medley...
...Cupp (13-7); LP:Beckman...