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...friendly assembly of United Nations delegates met under the shade of apple trees in a Burlington, Vt. garden where Chief U.S. Delegate Warren R. Austin and his wife Mildred topped off the proceedings by cutting their golden wedding anniversary cake. Among the anniversary gifts: a gold thimble studded with diamonds for Mrs. Austin, a pair of gold picture frames from the White House...
...Manage. Don Mitchell has put $39 million into expansion since war's end. He has a $75 million backlog of military orders for everything from proximity fuses to radar sets. He is building a new $5,000,000 plant at Burlington, Iowa to make radio tubes for defense, more than doubling Sylvania's Long Island physics laboratory to handle work for the Atomic Energy Commission, and building or expanding six more plants...
...relatives tried to bury his sister: "They wanted to give her a stinking little three hundred-dollar funeral, bury her like a dog, but I stepped in and stopped that." Now, at 75, old Jim was alone and he wanted everybody in tiny (pop. 2,200) Burlington, Colo, to know that he, at least, was going out in style...
...major U.S. railroad.* During summer vacations from Yale Budd worked on a survey gang for the road, became assistant to the Great Northern's chief electrical engineer on graduation in 1930, and in 1940 (long after his father had left the road to head the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) became a division head in Oregon...
Next spring, Haldy's orderly routine-his starchy luncheons at Foster's dinette, his trips to the Burlington station to watch the trains ("so powerful, so straight, so exact")-will be changed a bit when he retires. But before it does, Haldy will have one slight interruption. Last week, the St. Louis section of the American Chemical Society announced the winner of its annual Midwest Award for achievement. Usually the gold medal goes to distinguished research scholars. This year it will go to Monmouth's William Haldeman, teacher and maker of chemists...