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CAPTAIN CLEO O'DONNELL, left halfback, who makes up for his slight 150 pounds with sheer drive and know-how, was elected captain in 1943 but left for service before he could play in that capacity. The always shifty runner returned this fall to be re-elected to the same post. With an uncanny ability to size up enemy plays before they get under way, he is, in spite of his five-foot eight-inch stature, one of the best pass defenders on the Crimson squad...
Last week more than 100 atomic scientists gathered at Oak Ridge to confer not about bigger, more frightful bombs, but about the peaceful applications of nuclear physics. The big job now was to spread atomic know-how, make industrialists, educators and the public aware of the benefits atomic discoveries might bring...
...that the British have been completely unable to get smoke pouring out of the Ruhr stacks, and that if the policy stated boldly by Byrnes is to be anything but a grim failure, it must be supported, at least through its critical initial stages, by U.S. resources, food and know...
...AVCO controls) into AVCO, simplify the operating procedures. At the top now is the combined policy-operating group, headed by Emanuel. His right-hand man, president and production boss of AVCO and board chairman of many of the other companies, is Irving Brown Babcock, 55, who learned his production know-how in 20 years at General Motors, was a G.M. vice president and head of its truck division until he joined AVCO a year and a half ago. Babcock's right-hand men are Executive Vice President William F. Wise, who came from Excello Corp. and Republic Products Corp...
Under a 20-year agreement with China's National Resources Commission, Westinghouse International will design buildings, set up machinery and production processes, and train personnel for a $35 million electrical manufacturing plant in China. In return, Westinghouse will get lump-sum payments for its know-how and brain power during the first ten years, royalties on the products during the second ten years...