Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks, one rescue squad, and a deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department rallied to save Quincy House from major damage yesterday evening after flames crept through a three-cushion couch in a sixth-story room.
The reactor was a Kiwi, an obsolete experimental nuclear rocket engine built at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and used only for brief tests. It was set on an expendable railroad car on Nevada's desolate Jackass Flats and surrounded with a motley array of test objects-nuclear fuels, explosives...
> Kiekhaefer's compact 60-h.p. "in-board-outboard," the smallest unit on the market for 14-ft. to 18-ft. boats. Modified from a Renault automobile engine, the transom-mounted motor is as easy to install and operate as an outboard but leaves more room than an inboard, facilitates...
> Tylercraft's first jet-powered 24-ft. auxiliary sloop ($4,885). The jet engine takes less room and costs half as much as a propeller inboard, uses regular gasoline.
The man behind Lonrho's restless expansion is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, 46, a 180-lb. six-footer who began his career as a porter in a London railway station, emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and built a fortune from a Mercedes franchise and mineral speculation. In 1961 he...