Word: carleton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Riding powder-puff breezes. Racing Master Carleton Mitchell skippered his stubby, 39-ft. Finisterre with his familiar finesse, made the most of a long windward beat to win the 184-mile blue-water Miami-Nassau race for the second year...
...Carleton Shugg. 58, stocky, pipe-puffing general manager of Electric Boat. A naval officer specializing in submarine construction before he joined Sprague Electric in 1929, Shugg managed shipyards during World War II, became deputy general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, was hired in 1951 as the man ideally suited to run Electric Boat...
...Body, One Ax. Last March, a peripatetic U.S. virologist and pediatrician (with a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) appeared in New Guinea. Crew-cut Dr. Carleton Gajdusek, 35, of Yonkers, N.Y., heard about kuru and plunged into its problems. Tramping through rain-soaked forests to Fore hamlets, he rounded up patients for the neat, bamboo-walled native hospital at nearby Okapa Patrol Post. To do autopsies, he had to haggle with victims' relatives for the bodies. The currency: axes and tobacco. (Dr. Gajdusek got some bodies at the bargain price of only...
Other members include Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics; Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy; Nathaniel P. Carleton '51, teaching fellow in General Education; Theodore H. Ingalls, associate professor of Epidemiology; and William E. Moffitt, associate professor of Chemistry...
...initiated a special group, membership in which is voluntary, to study the use of calculus intensively, The section, said Carleton, is for those with "more mathematical aptitude or background...