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Below the gossamer-thin plastic bag that climbed over Palestine, Texas, dangled a 6,300-lb. L-shaped package as bulky as two Cadillacs. It was surely one of the most ungainly-looking loads ever hefted aloft. Designed and built by PerkinElmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn., it contained a 36-in. mirror that would be a respectable size even for a solid-ground observatory, but that mirror was only the beginning. The telescope was suspended so that it could swing in all directions, under precise control by ground radio. It carried a coarse-vision television camera...
Died. Frances Davis Lockridge, 67, plot-devising half of the husband-wife team that created the sophisticated Pam and Jerry North detective thrillers, a pleasant, undevious-looking woman about whom her husband Richard once said: "Frances suggests interesting victims-I kill 'em off"; of acute pancreatitis; in Norwalk, Conn...
BETTER TEACHING: $3,500,000 to reform teaching in all the public schools of Oregon; similar grants went to the schools of Newton, Mass., and Norwalk, Conn...
...TIME, you referred to Le Grand Lockwood, builder and original owner of the mansion at Norwalk, Conn., as a "Civil War profiteer...
...hand down to future generations some of the architectural heritage of America's past, and are joining forces to find the ways and means. Their latest victory, and one of the most notable of all, has just been won in the Connecticut industrial and commuting town of Norwalk. There Civil War Profiteer LeGrand Lockwood spent about $1,500,000 to build himself a 60-room chateau that is perhaps the finest example of Victorian architectural extravagance still standing...