Word: fritz
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Like most educators, the men of Caltech have their little eccentricities. Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky takes peculiar pride in the fact that he has never given a student a grade of 100 (except once, and then the student turned out to be a fiction created by a band of Zwicky's colleagues). Brilliant young Theoretical Physicist Richard Feynman is a master at breaking lock and safe combinations (during World War II, he made the rounds of Los Alamos safes, depositing "Guess who?" notes in them). In his spare time, Nobel Chemist Linus Pauling likes to blast away at the souped...
Junior Varsity heavies: Carlo Zezza, stroke; Jack Lapsley, seven; Larry Huntington, six; John Farlow, five; Peter Hobbs, four; Art Hodges, three; Fritz Schwarz, two; Steve Hopkins, bow; Ted Crowther, coxswain...
...Congratulations on your tribute to the "over 60s" of music [Feb. 28]. I was fortunate enough to be seated near the leader of the applause at the Wilhelm Backhaus concert: the 80-year-old Fritz Kreisler. He applauded first, loudest, and longest...
...champion's real competition came from one of his countrymen. Whistling downhill at a splendid clip, Franz Kapus, 45, a Zurich flour-mill mechanic, was clocked in five minutes. 10.52 seconds. Fritz Feierabend had lost his title to a Feierabend sled by a fleeting three hundredths of a second...
...developments in the Far East (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), N.Z.Z. characteristically handled it in a short wire-service story at the bottom of page two. It covered page one with a leisurely account of the opening of the British Parliament, a long book review of the third volume of Fritz Valjavec's ten-volume Historia Mundi and a discussion of German-Russian relations...