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...type of company to help wage it-one that turned out not just tanks, or guns, or planes, but entire weapons systems. He set out to create a General Motors of defense, visualizing it as a national service as well as a business. Using Electric Boat as his nucleus (the company had plenty of cash but few orders after 1945), he worked out a careful formula for expansion. He wanted solid, well-managed firms that could be picked up for a small amount of cash or an exchange of stock, then made into even better companies...
These more callow members of the Crimson squad will presumably be steadied by a small nucleus of battle-tested veterans from previous track campaigns. Among the latter group are seniors Pete Reider, French Anderson, and John DuMoulin and junior dashmen Joel Landau and Sandy Dodge...
Evidently, Tiger coach Dick Vaughan has spent the early part of the season rebuilding his team. which won only one of its eight Ivy games last season. He began with a strong nucleus in captain Henry Rulon-Miller, an All-Ivy choice in both his sophomore and junior years, wing John Hall, the team's leading scorer, and defenseman Doug Levick...
...hands Buick became the car for fast, aggressive comers-a category in which every man recognized himself-instead of just a stodgy chariot for doctors and politicians. To meet the new appeal, Buick broadened its line to compete with more expensive cars. The Buick account was the nucleus of Kudner's business-nearly a third of its $66.2 million in billings-and the feeling grew that Kudner could do no wrong in Buick's eyes...
...most puzzling known particles of the atom is the neutron, the uncharged building block of the nucleus. To explain its lack of electrical charge, nuclear physicists have long supposed that the particle is made up of a tiny, positively charged core surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged mesons. These two charges were thought to cancel each other out, producing the neutral neutron...