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...Dinghy. In Leicester, England, William Ernest Woodward bought a bicycle to ride the one mile from his house to his garage, where he keeps his Rolls-Royce limousine...
Perhaps most notable of all are the scientists: Physicist John Bardeen, who shared a Nobel prize for perfecting the transistor; Astronomer James G. Baker, inventor of a satellite-tracking camera; Chemist R. B. Woodward, synthesizer of quinine and reserpine; Physicist Ivan A. Getting, World War II radar pioneer and now a vice president of Raytheon; Physicist James B. Fisk, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and the West's chief expert on atom-test bans in the Geneva negotiations with the Russians...
...blossom out of a fertile but rather parched story, and all is saved. Will Varner recognizes what a real chip off the old chopping block his son Jody is, when Jody tries to burn him to death; Clara, Varner's daughter, played in a vaguely disappointing way by Joanne Woodward, finds out that the guy she's loved for five years doesn't have any desire to crawl into bed with her, married or unmarried; and she suddenly recognizes her love for Ben Quick...
...Scattered through Woodward's swelling roster are such noted local residents as Architect Hugh Stubbins, Bacteriologist Robert Gohd. Chemist Charles Coryell and Geologist Louis DeGoes...
Consulting the 500-name list from A (for actuary) to W (for wrestling), Lexington's teachers mapped guest lectures by part-time pedagogues all during the coming year. "We were spending money on film strips," says Dick Woodward, "when within our own community we had firsthand sources more effective than anything we could buy." Equally impressive, adds Woodward, is a significant fringe benefit. "This is a way to get people interested in the schools, and that's the best way to get better schools...