Word: researching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once, the glacial calm of G.M. was cracked. Summoning reporters to a hastily called news conference, G.M. opened a trunkful of evidence in defense of the rear-engine car. Declared Maurice Olley, a retired G.M. director of research and development on suspension systems: "Some makes of front-engine cars are nose-heavy, even with a normal passenger load. To compare a car to an arrow is a complete fallacy." In a rear-engine car, said Olley, "the engine and its parts are more accessible. You people who know the Volkswagen know that when you open up its little rear...
...lofts, warehouses or garages in the commercial districts of Boston or Cambridge, looked very much like the radio-repair shops and jobbers that surrounded them. To finance samples of new products, the founders dug into personal savings or tapped friends. Cash came from such risk-minded organizations as American Research & Development Corp., which sponsored many science companies (High Voltage, Tracerlab), and from individual investor groups such as those of Laurance Rockefeller, who now is sponsoring one of 128's newest, Geophysics Corp. of America. As the prototype models succeeded, the young companies outgrew their quarters and moved...
...likely to find himself severely outclassed until he reaches the quarter or semi-finals, and as a result great ability is not a prerequisite for entrance. The winner of last year's men's singles was Frank Fisher, here doing post-doctoral research...
...Nazi concentration camp. Young Fuchs was a brilliant theoretical physicist, won doctorates at both Bristol and Edinburgh. When World War II broke out, 31-year-old Fuchs, after first being interned in Canada, became a naturalized British subject and was soon recruited for Britain's secret atomic research program...
Controlled Schizoid. For 2½ years he worked in the U.S. (partly at Los Alamos), returned to Britain in 1946 to be head of the theoretical physics department at the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, was rated as the No. 3 atomic scientist in Britain. Then in 1950 British intelligence belatedly closed in. After a brilliantly conducted interrogation that played on his intellectual vanity. Traitor Fuchs seemed relieved to tell...