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...reason is that square dancing is a friendly way of meeting friendly people. Said George Norton, president of the Northern California Square Dancers Association (103 clubs, 11,000 members): "Just watch how those people come into contact with one another and smile. These aren't profound friendships, but they're easy ones to make and wonderful ones to enjoy." Consequently, square dancers tend to be middle-aged couples in the kind of jobs that include little social life...
Frank Knox memorial fellowships, providing a year of study in one of the nations of the British Commonwealth, have been awarded to eight seniors: Keith H. Basso, Joseph L. Featherstone, Mitchell H. Gall, Burt P. Johnson Jr., Robert J. Klein, Norton D. Lang, Peter W. Stanley, and Curtis D. McFarland. Students are selected for the awards, established in honor of Frank Knox '42, on the basis of academic and extra-curricular achievements...
...conclusion to his Charles Eliot Norton lectures, Pier Luigi Nervi last night looked into the future to a "vast and spacious architecture" constructed a strict obedience to physical law while maintaining an intrinsic appeal to man's aesthetic sense...
...best salesmen are named Khrushchev and Kennedy," Chicago's Frank F. Norton, president of the National Shelter Association, cried last fall. With Khrushchev threatening war over Berlin, and Kennedy encouraging U.S. families to build home shelters, Norton's own Atomic Shelter Corp. and scores of other companies were swamped with orders to build a haven in the basement or bury one in the backyard. But last week Norton, who has lost $100,000 and estimates that over 600 firms have failed, had changed his tune. Grieved he: "The market is dead-the manufacturers have...
Many shelter manufacturers have moved into other lines of production. After switching from swimming pools to shelters, one firm in Boston is back to swimming pools again. Once burned by the shelter boom-to-bust, the manufacturers are twice wary. Says Norton: "If we had another international crisis, I don't know of a manufacturer who would make a move of his own until we got an explicit national plan endorsing home shelters...