Word: von
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Made to Order. Their technical reputations grew so fast that when the Government asked the late great Mathematician John Von Neumann to set up a committee to study the future development of strategic guided missiles, Ramo and Wooldridge were picked as members. The committee decided that the ICBM could be built, turned over its report to the Government which felt that it was too big a job for one company or for the Air Force to handle alone. What was needed was a unique setup-a new civilian technical group that could work under the Air Force and supervise...
Dain Trafton, Ed Tarlov, and John von Stade will probably open on defense for the Yardlings. Tom Day will start in the goal...
...Skiddy von Stade '38, Dean of Freshmen, noted that one-quarter of the students who enter the College with scientific careers in mind, eventually reverse their decisions. "Don't think of concentration solely in terms of what it will get you in terms of employment," he advised...
Pickett announced as starters Tom Day at goal, John Righter, Nick Lamont, and Dave Sweet on attack, Norm Rockefeller, Dick Parks, and John Gould as midfielders, and Dain Trafton, John von Stade, and Ed Tarlov on defense...
...tournament, was upset by unseeded Dave Mason of Pittsburg in a close five-game match. Stephen Vehslage of Haverford (Pa.) School defeated Dan Morgan, Jr. of Yale in the other semi-final contest of the tourney. Eliminated in the quarter-finals were Ralph Mason Jr. of Pittsburg; H. Von L. Meyer Jr., Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.; John Ireton, Toronto University; and Romer Holloran, Exeter Academy...