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Armed with a top priority, Rickover gathered a staff of bright young officers with a mathematical bent, went with them to the AEC's giant Oak Ridge plant for an atomic refresher course. His engineers and sub men pored over old Annapolis manuals and textbooks on steam turbines, rigged one up, and started figuring ways to hitch it to an atomic boiler. In Washington, the Bureau of Ships began designing a thick new hull to hold the new engine...
Said Scientist Julian, whose home in suburban Oak Park has twice been vandalized since he bought it a year ago: "It appears to me that organizations like the Union League Club are as directly responsible as any other agency for such un-American incidents as the bombing of my home and the Cicero riot. When individuals in high places behave as the Union League Club behaves, ordinary citizens follow suit...
...Only 3½ miles from the Oak Park, Ill. home of Dr. Percy Lavon Julian, famed Negro chemist. Hoodlums tried to burn the Julian home in November, tossed a bomb in the front yard last month...
...lobby, paneled in glass and wood, has a rug with little colored dots woven in. Explained the proprietor: "We've got built-in food and ink spots and cigarette burns; now we don't have to worry." In the dining room, an enormous oak pedestal will be loaded with raw steaks so that each guest can select his own and brand it with a hot iron-"R" for rare, "M" for medium, "W" for well done...
Pollard has no intention of giving up his career as a research and training chief of the famed atomic city in Tennessee. His position in the church, he feels, will simply be an extension of the job he is already doing as vestryman of Oak Ridge's brand-new St. Stephen's Church. As a deacon, he will be able to assist his rector, the Rev. Robert F. McGregor, in a variety of ways-conducting services during his absence, or lending a hand at the new mission in nearby Norris, Tenn...