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...lean, black-bearded man of 49, Adams has roamed the mountain country most of his life. The pioneer U.S. Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) strongly influenced his art, helped make it known. Like Stieglitz, Adams is a brilliant teacher and technician who believes that photography can be as pure an art form as any other. But, says he, "Creation within the strict limitations of the medium is the basic law of pure photography as in all the other arts...
Youngest member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Buster Old, a 23-year-old photo-lab technician in the Army's Signal Corps, has been an amateur zoologist since childhood, is now a highly respected, unofficial investigator for the Smithsonian Institution. Ever since August, the Smithsonian's molluskmen have been expectantly watching the mails for the tobacco tins, metal film containers and glass medicine bottles in which he has sent them nearly 500 specimens of Korean frogs, lizards, snakes, crayfish and snails...
...experts agree that guided missiles make the most difficult problem that military scientists have tackled so far-more difficult even than atomic bombs. The program has already drained the country dry of specially qualified scientists. Every missile plant and laboratory has a welcome for the dewiest young technician. When large-scale production begins, the pinch will be even tighter. Some missilemen think that the Government should shut down the television industry to free electronic men for guided-missile work...
Chief Wilson's rise in Alcoa is as spectacular as the company's growth. From his first job as research technician he quickly moved on to assistant director of research. After serving as a major in chemical warfare during World War I, he went back to Alcoa and at 31 was in charge of Alcoa's aluminum reduction plants. At 40 he was vice president and running all the company's production. During World War II he supervised Alcoa's $300 million expansion, in addition was put in charge of the $450 million worth...
...Pont is the world's greatest chemical empire, the master technician of U.S. industry. It has 72 plants in 25 states, employs about 85,000 people, turns out 1,200 different types of products, and last year chalked up $1,297,000,000 in sales. Its wizardry in its Wilmington laboratories periodically conjures up entire new industries. Duco, the first quick-drying auto finish, revolutionized U.S. auto production. Cellophane changed the packaging habits of everybody from butchers, bakers and cigarette makers to orchid growers. Nylon changed the hosiery habits of U.S. women, is helping to revolutionize the textile industry...