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Though Colman will be in complete charge of the team, he said he would be in very close contact with Caldwell throughout the season. In requesting a leave of absence, Caldwell ruled out the possibility of his merely easing off on his coaching duties. "Football has become such an exacting science that part-time coaching, if only for a period of weeks, is extremely unwise," he said...
Smith's rugged iron works are too brutal to sit comfortably close together in the whitewashed, antiseptic setting of museum walls; they look best against the rolling mountains and lakeshore on which his Lake George studio faces. His Man and Woman in Cathedral (opposite) was jigsawed out of steel plate with an acetylene torch. "The name came merely because of the male and female in a vertical structural relationship." says Smith. "I named it afterward. The structure seemed kind of gothic, so that's how come 'cathedral.' When I work I don't name things...
Another result was the rise of citizens' groups to seek industry. One of the most dramatic successes was in tiny Glenrock (pop. 1,500). With its chief industry, an outdated oil refinery employing about 60 persons, scheduled to close, Glenrock merchants set up a committee to get new industries that could use the area's big coal deposits...
...complying, said one company official, "than we had of flying to the moon." But, for the sake of public relations, the company agreed to send geologists. Their reports were eye-popping. Within 15 miles of an ideal plant site were 50 million tons of coal in fat seams, close enough to the surface to be mined by power shovels. Last year Pacific Power broke ground for its new steam plant, whose 17-story boiler-house will be the highest building in Wyoming...
ELECTRONICS BUYING will be stepped up by Air Force, which this year is budgeting about $3.5 billion for it (close to 20% of Air Force spending v. 10% a few years ago). Pressure will be on manufacturers to turn out more reliable, easier-to-maintain equipment because Air Force complains that upkeep per year is twice the original cost, and some complex electronics systems need three hours' maintenance for every hour of flight...