Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with their city's sidewalk architects. To replace the bombed-out St. Rochus Roman Catholic Church, a young Luftwaffe veteran named Paul Schneider-Esleben has designed a building in the form of a three-leaf clover (representing the Trinity). The new structure will be connected to the old bell tower by a path which was once the main aisle of St. Rochus, using the twelve aisle columns (representing the twelve Apostles) as a border...
Petri soon showed a shrewd eye for a smart deal. In 1949, he bought up the big Mission Bell winery in the San Joaquin Valley for $3,250,000, thereby doubled Petri's storage capacity to 20 million gals. He also figured that it was more profitable to distribute wine than to grow and crush grapes. So in 1951 he helped organize 300 small-and medium-size San Joaquin growers into the Allied Grape Growers, Inc., a cooperative to which he sold all his wineries in the valley. In return, Petri got exclusive marketing rights to Allied...
...associates took a much more optimistic view in praising men's ingenuity in inventing automatic machines. Dr. Claude E. Shannon of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, said that automatic computers had been devised that "could play a tolerably good game of checkers, translate crudely from one language to another and learn from experience as higher animals do." He reported that John Von Newman, mathematician of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. had built an abstract model machine that could reproduce itself...
...probably accept. One group-the "Seven Wise Men" as they are called at the White House-was formed by the President himself to consider the level and nature of the American defense effort. The other-a special committee on the air-defense problem headed by Mervin Kelly of the Bell Laboratories-was formed by former Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett and requested to continue its work by the President. It was the President who insisted that the Lincoln findings remain on the Security Council agenda, so that the problem should not drop out of sight of his highest advisers...
...hold the patents on staff members' discoveries in medicine and public health, Harvard University set up a special nonprofit corporation called Protein Foundation Inc., with Chester I. Barnard, onetime telephone tycoon (New Jersey Bell) and later head of the Rockefeller Foundation, as chairman. Much of its work will involve patents taken out by Biochemist Edwin J. Cohn, the world's top authority on blood fractions, relating to gamma globulin and methods of collecting and preserving blood substances...