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Fatal Flight. With such facts in mind, Dr. William Dock of the Palo Alto medical clinic lashed out at the tendency to attribute a man's death from heart disease to his work, regardless of other activities. He cited a case history: "An electrician, two years after recovery from [a heart attack] dropped dead at lunch, which had included two bottles of beer. The industrial examiner accepted the claim that death was due to the exertion of walking up a flight of stairs an hour before lunch, and refused to consider that a stomach full of iced beer...
Ideas into Gold. R-W's type of success can be found again and again in the industry. Among the new successes: ¶Varian Associates was founded in 1948 in Palo Alto, Calif, by Physicist Russell and Engineer Sigurd Varian as a company that had "nothing to offer but advanced technology and ideas." Today, as the biggest producer of the klystron tube, which guides Air Force missiles and irradiates Army food, Varian has grown from seven employees to 1,230, did an annual business of $11 million in 1956. Estimated 1957 sales: up another 27% to $14 million...
...camp until he joined the Air Force at 17. Though he made a respectable war record as a B-17 waist gunner in Europe, he never seemed able to settle down once he had left the service. He worked at radio and TV repair jobs in Alaska, Seattle and Palo Alto, Calif., finally ended up as a booking agent for a small jazz band in Las Cruces, N. Mex. There he wrote a phony $600 check and landed in jail...
...Portable Helicopter. A collapsible, 250-Ib. helicopter that can be dropped by parachute and reassembled by one man in about ten minutes was announced by the Navy. The one-man rotorcycle, which is held together by easily released pins, was developed by Hiller Helicopters of Palo Alto, Calif...
...onetime Collier's Far East correspondent, who got a resounding newsbeat (and a crippled arm, damaged vocal cords) in 1937 when he mooched a ride on the U.S. Navy gunboat Panay just before Japanese dive bombers sank it in the Yangtze River; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif...