Word: haakon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pantry Version. In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, then head of the super-secret atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, testified to Army intelligence officers that in late '42 or early '43. Fellow Traveler Haakon Chevalier, at the time Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, sounded out three Los Alamos scientists with a view to transmitting atomic information to Russia. Later, Oppenheimer dubbed this testimony "a cock-and-bull story." His revised version: Chevalier was approached by a mutual friend and Soviet sympathizer, reported the matter to Oppenheimer, and both men agreed that the suggestion...
...WOULD BE GOD (449 pp.)-Haakon Chevalier-Putnam...
...Haakon) I. (for Ingolf) Romnes, 52, was elected president of Western Electric Co., manufacturing arm of A. T. & T., to succeed the late Arthur B. Goetze. Son of a Norwegian immigrant baker, Romnes went to work for the Bell System installing telephones during his senior year at the University of Wiscon sin, joined A. T. & T. when he graduated in 1928. Romnes became A. T. & T. chief of engineering in 1952, a vice president...
Last week, long ill from complications resulting from a leg accident he suffered two years ago, just before his golden anniversary, King Haakon VII, devoted ruler of his adopted country for 52 years, died at 85. His successor: Crown Prince Olav, 54, his only son, who became commander of Free Norwegian forces in Britain during World...
Died. Christian Frederik Carl George Valdemar Axel, King Haakon VII, 85, Norway's only ruler since the country became independent in 1905, and the world's oldest reigning monarch; of a respiratory ailment; in Oslo (see FOREIGN NEWS...