Word: hamilton
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Happy Returns. In Hamilton, Ont., George Hammer was convicted of forging checks totaling $790 by copying the signatures from Christmas cards friends had sent...
...search of quality need regard as second choice such vigorous institutions as Antioch, Carleton, Grinnell, Hamilton, Haverford, Kenyon, Mills, Oberlin, Reed, and California's Oxford-inspired Associated Colleges (Claremont Men's, Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Scripps). All are tough to get into, and worth it. The California group's freshmen come almost entirely from the top 5% of their high school graduating classes. Pennsylvania's Haverford has long been a sort of pocket Harvard, has an impressive faculty-student ratio of 1 to 7. Iowa's Grinnell is known as "the Harvard of the Midwest...
...including European immigrants (more than 20% of the 1,900,000 postwar "new Canadians" have settled in the horseshoe). When he left Italy nine years ago, Carpenter Alfonso Frisina had little money and less English, but he barged right into the contracting business; this year Frisina will put up Hamilton's first skyscraper, a 22-story, $4,000,000 office building. Toronto-born Harvey Keith, 55, quit his job as a supermarket supervisor in 1950, borrowed $5,000 to go into real estate, guessed right on the horseshoe's land boom, last year grossed $33 million. Japanese-Canadian...
...More Talk. The Whitney-White choice, Fendall Yerxa, is a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), lean and dedicated career journalist, who broke into the game a year after Hamilton College on the now-defunct Minneapolis Journal in 1938, went to the Herald Tribune postwar as a reporter after a four-year combat hitch as a Marine Corps officer. He was raised to city editor in 1952, left the paper in 1955 to become executive director of the Wilmington Morning News and Journal-Every Evening (combined circ. 101,468), both owned by Christiana Securities Co., a Du Pont holding company. With...
Electron Cutter. United Aircraft Corp.'s Hamilton Standard Division (propellers) will put on the market a machine, developed by West Germany's Carl Zeiss Foundation, that uses electron beams to weld, mill and drill hair-fine holes in the hardest known materials, e.g., quartz, tungsten, zirconium. An electron gun fires beams that boost the temperature on the surface of the material up to 11,000° F. ; it can cut 100 holes in a straight line across a pinhead, drill a sapphire watch bearing in six seconds, weld a tough nu clear reactor core. Lease price: about...