Word: teller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University of Alaska Edward Teller, physicist Sc.D. George Lehleitner, New Orleans businessman, promoter of statehood for Alaska and Hawaii LL.D...
Physicist Edward Teller pointed...
...tried unsuccessfully to hold up the downtown branch office of the Bank of Virginia in Norfolk. Then he had read in the papers that the FBI had picked up one Daniel Dough Jr., a part-time copy boy at the Virginian-Pilot, who was identified by the bank teller as the holdup man. Said Anderson: "My conscience bothered me. I didn't want an innocent person to go to jail." An hour later, Anderson surrendered to the Norfolk bureau...
When FBI agents confronted Teller Eileen Thomas with Daniel Dough and James Anderson, Teller Thomas was flabbergasted. Dough, 19, was 5 ft. 5 in., weighed 140 Ibs., had sandy brown, close-cropped hair parted to the left, hazel eyes, chubby cheeks-all the identification notes that an observant woman would make. Anderson, 20, was 5 ft. 6 in., 133 Ibs., had sandy brown, close-cropped hair parted to the left, brown eyes, chubby cheeks. Only when the FBI took both men into the bank-each dressed in the same clothes he had worn on the day of the attempted holdup...
...World Congress of Flight, which the Air Force assembled last week among the slot machines of Las Vegas, Nev., Dr. Edward Teller described a scheme to explode a nuclear charge 100 million miles away from the earth. The purpose would be to test a key assumption of Einstein's theory of relativity: that every kind of electromagnetic radiation (light, infrared, ultraviolet, radio waves, X rays and gamma rays) travels at the same speed-186,000 miles a second...