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Researchers at Savannah River and Sandia also conduct extensive work for non-military purposes Sandia, for example, oversees a large solar energy program, and its nuclear programs have civilian, as well as defense applications, says Rod Geer, a spokesman for the labs. Du Pont uses nuclear materials at Savannah River for testing cancer therapy...
Women's Championship Singles: Judy Geer of Dartmouth...
...George Bernard Shaw to undiscovered playwrights, its performers from an aging generation whose formative experiences were in tent shows, travelling troupes, and vaudeville theaters to an energetic new generation that would dominate American entertainment for years to come, a crew that included Orson Welles and John Houseman, Will Geer and John Huston, E.G. Marshall and Joseph Cotton...
DIED. Will Geer, 76, protest-minded character actor who capped a long career with his portrayal of the blustery grandfather in television's homespun series, The Waltons; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Wanderlust led the young Geer to riverboat theater, the Shakespearean stage and the bright lights of Broadway (Of Mice and Men, Tobacco Road). Blacklisted in the McCarthy era, he pursued an interest in botany with a book on the 1,000 plants in Shakespeare's plays and a repertory theater in Topanga Canyon, Calif, called the Theatricum Botanicum, where he continued to hold workshops...
Died. William D. Geer, 70, who came to Time Inc. from Yale in 1929, and in the course of his long and varied career was editor of The March of Time, general manager of FORTUNE, and from 1943 to 1949, its publisher; of a stroke; in Gilsum...