Word: geologist
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...chief executives can claim careers as colorful as that of Lawrence Litchfield Jr., 63, the chairman of first-ranking Aluminum Co. of America. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and Harvard ('23), he tramped the jungles of Latin America and Africa as a geologist in search of bauxite, learned to speak five languages and eat such delicacies as parrot soup, struck oil for Alcoa in Texas and along the way found time to be an athlete (rowing), amateur artist, rider and hunter. Since he moved up from president last April, he has spent most of his time "thinking...
Wednesday, January 15 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The major scientific breakthroughs since 1948 discussed by Astronomer Gart Wester-hout, Maser Inventor Charles H. Townes, Geologist Bruce Heezen, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Prizewinning Biochemist Severe Ochoa and Scientific American Publisher Gerard Piel...
...most articulate spokesman for this solution is a pretty young woman named Leila Hadley, whose four children (Arthur, 18, Victoria, 10, Matthew, 8, Caroline, 4), plus a peripatetic geologist husband and an inborn wanderlust provided the fieldwork for her new, four-volume guidebook, How to Travel with Children in Europe...
Both Flather and Julian worked in Africa during their two years with the Peace Corps. Flather taught in Ghana and is presently studying African history at Columbia. Julian served as a geologist in Tanganyika and is now at U.C.L.A. working for a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology. Sxanton, who was a teaching aid in the Philippines, will do graduate work in the social sciences at the University of Chicago...
Died. William Embry Wrather, 80, petroleum geologist, longtime (1943-56) chief of the U.S. Geological Survey, who pioneered the use of micropaleontology (the study of fossils) for finding oil with the 1918 strike at the Desdemona field in Texas, later in Washington spearheaded the wartime campaign to make the U.S. self-sufficient in vital materials that led to the discovery of substantial domestic deposits of vanadium, tungsten, manganese and other valuable ores; of a stroke; in Washington...