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...shield the $10 million reactor so that a collision with another ship would not release death dealing radiation. To accomplish this, the ship's nuclear engineers encased the reactor in reinforced bulkheads, extra-heavy plating, a 2-ft.-thick "collision mat" made of layers of steel and redwood, and some 2,000 tons of lead and concrete...
Private Affluence. Over the years, affable Walter Heller has developed enough private affluence to afford a redwood four-level contemporary home in St. Paul, Minn, and a sporty Peugeot. Born in Buffalo of German immigrant parents, he graduated from Ohio's Oberlin College ('35), earned his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin six years later-just seconds after his wife got her Ph.D. in physiology. Rejected for military service, Heller joined the Treasury Department in 1942 as an economic consultant. After the war he went back to teaching but kept up his profitable sideline as an economist...
...Examiner's shadow, the Chronicle moseyed along as an earnest but unexciting paper so out-of-touch with local currents that it once sent its science editor to Outer Mongolia for a story about a "dawn redwood." But in 1952 Charles de Young Thieriot, a descendant of the paper's founders and a man convinced that "international news is not what people want to read at breakfast," took control of the Chronicle. As his right-hand man he picked Scott Newhall, lively scion of another leading Bay family. Dipping into Hearst's own bag of tricks, Newhall...
Fragrant Memory. Raborn got his program moving at flank speed. Somehow, in record time, every phase of the mission had to be worked out in theory and tested in practice. Dummy birds of everything from redwood to cement were fired at installations from San Clemente Island to Cape Canaveral. There were test shots from a converted Mariner-class ship, Observation Island. There were tethered shots, shots that were grabbed by hooks, and buoyant birds netted in the water. All helped give basic information...
...Paul Rudolph (TIME color, Feb. 1). In the scramble for commissions, Lundy made his reputation when he designed a handsome drive-in church for as little as $35,000 by using laminated southern pine. He proved equally adept at designing commercial structures. A flower-shaped furniture showroom in laminated redwood pulled business right off the highway. His Warm Mineral Springs Inn, sheltered by 75 overlapping concrete shells suggestive of the nearby tourist-touted "Fountain of Youth," was such a successful traffic-stopper that the luxury motel was forced to add an additional wing...