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...question of safety in the laboratory arose as the temporary repair job left wires hanging in the transformer room. Dr. William M. Preston, Director of the Cyclotron Laboratory, refused to give a definite statement on the present safety conditions...
...Naval Office of Research which finances the cyclotron project at the University, seemed unconcerned about the temporary breakdown, and Navy official Lt. Cmdr. P. G. Conwell told Preston that the Navy Department was sorry it happened. The cost of the repair will come out of the Laboratory's $25,000 monthly budget...
...complicate matters, Charlie's married pal from back home (Robert Preston) arrives in New York on business, and is pretty envious of Charlie's lot, but even more disapproving. He so sprays the atmosphere with the idea of matrimony that Charlie becomes engaged to two girls at once; a little later Boy loses Girls; thereafter, the big question of the evening is which one will he regain...
...Preston Foster, as a surburban husband fed up with his wife, three children, and his wall-to-wall carpeting way of life, could not be more harried and sincere. By the end of the evening, however, his carpet fixation has become only an intra-mural joke...
Compensatory Fees. For the first time a play-by-play account of how one of the windfall deals worked was furnished by the contractors themselves. Three Washington builders-Herman W. Hutman, Earl J. Preston and Bryan Gordon Jr.-told how they got $13,846,000 in FHA-insured loans to put up the Shirley-Duke apartments in Alexandria, Va. To meet FHA requirements that the sponsor must have put in 10% of the estimated cost of the project, the builders reported that 1) they had spent $750,000 for architect's fees instead of the $63,000 they actually...