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...technical papers, e.g., Motion of Telephone Wires in Wind, helped to develop the coaxial cable, pioneered other telephone and TV equipment, directed the lab's vast World War II radar program. Usually he brought a fat briefcase home from work every evening to his green-shuttered home in Englewood, N.J. In 1952 he moved to New Mexico as president of Western Electric's nonprofit subsidiary, Sandia Corp. His job: building atomic bombs, designing and developing new nuclear weapons. He directed the Sandia lab's expansion from 4,500 to 5,500 workers, did an outstanding job directing...
Politics & Government. As an Arkansas lad, Don Quarles never knew any such animal existed as "a good Republican." In the pleasant, suburban Republican community of Englewood, he switched to the G.O.P. A good citizen, he worked on endless, dreary civic jobs, refused a salary for heading a $13 million county sewer project. He made $300 a year as a city councilman, but when he worked up to mayor, his pay dropped down to $100. He has so few political connections that state G.O.P. leaders were plugging two other New Jersey Republicans (Singer Manufacturing Co.'s President Milton Lightner...
...underground garage with 2,359 spaces (rate: $2.40 for 24 hours). It cost $8,300,000, but business is 20% better than expected, and the garage turned a $96,291 profit for the city in its first six months. Chicago also completed five other garages downtown, six in the Englewood shopping area, plans four more (total capacity of the 16 garages: more than 8,000 cars). Said Commissioner of Streets Lloyd Johnson: "Without the parking facilities now operating or under construction, the central business area would be strangled within a few years...
Arthur W. Ticknor '56, of Dunster and Englewood, N.J., has been elected captain and president of the Rugby Club for next year. Ticknor has played flank forward on the team for three years. The other officers will be R. Brady Williamson '56 of Eliot and Pittsburgh, Pa., as Vice President; Alastair J. C. E. Rellie of Grays and Guliford, England as Secretary, and Terence S. Turner '57 of Adams and Garrett Park, Md., as Treasurer...
...former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, mother-in-law of Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh, poet (Quatrains for My Daughter, Hostage, Saint of the Lost-the last two prompted by the 1932 kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby), first (1939-40) woman president of Smith College; after long illness; in Englewood...