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...hysterical with joy. When Cape Canaveral's pencil-mustached Major General Donald Yates walked into a press conference, newsmen rose and applauded. In Hawthorne, Calif., at the Data Reduction Center of Ramo-Wooldridge's Space Technology Laboratories (the Air Force's top moon-probe contractor), Air Force officers and civilians whooped and pounded one another. In the Pentagon, top brass cheerfully poured out their delight in hourly pronouncements on Pioneer's progress...
...MILLION CONTRACT will go to International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., picked as prime contractor for worldwide communications net for Strategic Air Command...
Candela works from intuition and experience, later proves out his drawings with "rather boring, lengthy" computations, likes to be his own engineer and contractor. With a host of sail-thin forms to play with, Candela feels architects are on the verge of a whole new architecture. "Shell construction covers great space with a minimum of material, and it is interesting and attactive besides...
...dropped his shyness long enough to go right up to a pretty girl in the street and ask for a date. Recalls his wife, Ana Lisa: "I was waiting for a trolley. It was really all a surprise." The fact that his future father-in-law was a contractor gave Niemeyer the idea of entering architecture school, but he did not have the necessary credits. So, he says, "I played soccer, went fishing and swimming, learned jujitsu." At 22, with daughter Ana Maria about to be born, he got admitted to Rio's Escola de Bellas Artes, dropped...
Required by the church to send their children to parochial schools whenever possible, Roman Catholic parents are not always happy about them. Last week the Jesuit weekly America printed a long letter from Mrs. James R. Cronin, 31, wife of a roofing contractor and onetime Chicago reporter, who has four children in St. Philip Neri School on Chicago's South Side. Not all of Pat Cronin's grievances were major, but many would probably be recognized by other Catholic mothers. Items...