Word: leonor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb; then the Russian H-bomb; then the fission-fusion-fission bomb. Libby saw why AECommissioners were rarely lighthearted and gay. Then in 1954 he became a commissioner himself, by appointment of President Eisenhower on the recommendation of AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss. When he moved to Washington with Leonor and their ten-year-old twin daughters, Libby brought along a truckload of scientific apparatus and set up a laboratory in the Carnegie Institution, where he works furiously on personal projects (his current interest: amino acids) whenever his work on the commission gives a moment of respite. "Science is like...
Clean Shirts. In 1940 Libby married Leonor Hickey, a young teacher of physical education who first heard about Libby from a friend's maid ("He's not terribly exciting," said the maid, "but he always wears clean shirts"), and still regards him as a goodhearted country boy who wears unsophisticated clothes. "He thinks he's a wonderful bridge player," confides Mrs. Libby, "but he's really lousy." Libby got a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to Princeton, but a few months later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and he offered his services to Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey...
...avalanche, the party came to a deep crevasse and spotted in it with searchlights a climber's torn coat. Near by, the rescuers found the first body, that of a college football star, Humberto Areizaga. As they dug deeper they were horrified to hear muffled voices beneath them. Leonor Colin, a 21-year-old student, and Francisco Meneses, a husky blacksmith, were buried under huge blocks of ice. Rescuers chopped futilely with their alpine ice axes. "Where is my mother? I want to see her again," the girl sobbed just before she died. Soon afterwards, the blacksmith died...
...year to plan and staff, is edited and translated in New York, printed in Chicago. (To set the magazine, TIME Inc. teletypesetters were sent to school to learn Spanish.; Part of the bilingual staff is made up of writers and journalists from Latin American countries, including Alberto Cellario and Leonor Villanueva, ex-editors on the staff of La Prensa, the once great Argentine daily taken over by Peron. Other Latin American staffers: Walter Montenegro, one of Bolivia's leading newspaper columnists: Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, winner of Cuba's 1951 National Literary Prize; Maruxa Nunez de Villa-vicencio, former...
...Philadelphia engineering firm who has been described as a combination of P. T. Barnum and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The society was originally started in England in 1920 as a technical group commemorating Thomas Newcomen, father of the steam engine. An American branch was soon launched by the late Leonor F. Loree, longtime dean of American railroad presidents. Penrose, a close friend of Loree's, was a charter member...