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...chemical laboratory met with widespread relief and gratitude. With President's Lowell's cherished House system still 12 years in the future, Cabot spent his first year at the College living in Stan dish Hall, now part of Winthrop House, overlooking the river, and his last two in Randolph, now incorporated into Adams House on Mt. Vernon...
...opening wallop in a new battle for control of Alleghany Corp. Both struggles grew out of the proxy fight of Alleghany Corp., then controlled by the late Robert R. Young and Allan Kirby, for control of the New York Central Railroad. An Alleghany financial adviser in the fight was Randolph Phillips, 49, who subsequently fell out with Young and Kirby and the Murchisons, who had helped Alleghany win the Central. Later, Alleghany sold the Murchisons its controlling stock in I.D.S., but Phillips won a court fight that forced them to sell it back to Alleghany, made his peace with Kirby...
...member A.F.L.-C.I.O. general board, after a hearty lunch in the presidential room of Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel, officially endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket. Lone holdout: Negro Labor Leader A. Philip Randolph, president of the Sleeping Car Porters, who argued there was little difference between Kennedy and Nixon, suggested that Labor form its own third party...
Architect Louis Sullivan was the father of the modern skyscraper, but the tallest structure he ever got to build was the 17-story Garrick Building on Randolph Street in Chicago's Loop. It was a theater topped by offices, and in its best days it was a masterpiece of soaring arches, spiraling staircases, and original, light-catching setbacks. But time has not been kind: as Randolph Street degenerated, the theater turned into a rundown movie house. Finally this year its owners, a subsidiary of the Balaban and Katz theater chain, decided to tear it down...
Last week Jerrie's strange disappearance was explained in Stockholm by Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II, chairman of the Special Committee on the Life Sciences for Project Mercury, the U.S. astronaut program. Jerrie Cobb had spent her "vacation" in Albuquerque, N. Mex. undergoing a brutal battery of 75 separate physical and psychological tests. She was jabbed with an electric needle, rocked back and forth on a tilting table to test her circulation. Her sense of balance was measured by squirting cold water into her ear canals to induce dizziness. Psychologists peppered her with 195 questions (sample: "Do you wish...