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Died. Robert Helberg, 61, Boeing aircraft scientist, builder of the immensely successful Lunar Orbiter spacecraft; of a heart attack; in Seattle. As the prime contractor's man in charge of the venture since inception in 1963, Helberg gets much credit for the five camera-bearing vehicles that whizzed around the moon and snapped some of the most dramatic pictures in all science...
...these feminine types from scrutiny. The first important triumph of the film is the skill with which he preserves and uses these stereotypes, revivifying them by reversing their conventional values: the unattainable blonde dream-girl, Sally, becomes the corrupter and destroyer, while the mundane, available brunette, Kate, is the builder and comforter...
...charitable nor accurate, but it did contain at least one grain of truth. In 28 years, Spellman put up the greatest mass of ecclesiastical building in history-well over $500 million for schools, churches and other institutions-earning for himself an unquestioned reputation as the church's master builder...
...Charles P. Price, Preacher to the University, accepted the $109,000 instrument--the largest organ of its kind constructed by an American in this century--from builder Charles B. Fisk '49. Done in pseudo-Baroque style to harmonize with Appleton Chapel, the choir section of the Church, the organ's gilded carvings were executed by Rockport artist Roger H. Martin...
Most of the loans were Government backed FHA or VA mortgages. Admits Ahmanson cheerfully: "We were paid a terrific price for virtually no risk." On top of that, Home bought up vast chunks of land that it is still selling at a hefty markup to builder-borrowers. With deft timing, Home cut back on loans for tracts of new houses before the great Southern California glut of 1965 and switched to apartments. This year the association itself is building three sizable apartment houses...