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...company's work is theoretical problem solving, some of it is quite practical. Sample: How do you find out how much fallout there is on a house from an atom blast without exploding a bomb? Tech Ops' answer was to build a scaled-down city, surround it with plastic tubing through which radioactive cobalt 60 is pumped, and then measure the fallout. The results are projected to a full-scale city. Through such experiments for the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Tech Ops will make recommendations for realistic civil defense measures...
Experiments are performed on Burpee's 500-acre Fordhook Farms, which surround the 250-year-old family home in Doylestown, Pa., where he lives with his wife and two children, or on the Floradale Farms in Santa Barbara County, Calif. His first venture into flower breeding was unsuccessful. His father, W. Atlee Burpee, the company founder, offered him $1,000 to develop a yellow sweet...
...Catholic. For almost all of them, the old church is the kind of hearth and headquarters it once was for the immigrant Irish. If pastors in the suburbs have trouble reaching their parishioners, Father Kern and his assistant priests do not. All through his 17-hour day, parishioners surround him, and the commonest phrase he hears is "Tengo una molestia" (I've got trouble...
This grey, depressing tale is saved by Author Braine's sure knowledge of his characters. He is unpitying as he sketches their fretful struggles to swim free of the muddy currents of ordinariness that surround ordinary Englishmen. Their speech rings as true as the clink of cheap teacups, their attempts at gaiety have all the poor authority of weak beer...
After the Paar walkout that was heard round the world (TIME, Feb. 22), things looked bad for a while. General David Sarnoff, jeered the Herald Tribune's Columnist Art Buchwald, had ordered "NBC's First Territorial Lawyers' Brigade to surround Paar's house and dig in. All leaves of the Fourth Airborne Public Relations Division were canceled, and every vice president under the age of 70 was mobilized and armed with statements." Then Jack finally decided to take a vacation in Hawaii and Hong Kong-but for some reason, he went by way of Florida. Somehow...