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...Ordered the construction of a $900 million factory near Aiken, S.C., a new $50 million U-235 plant at Paducah, Ky., and $200 million additions to both the original Oak Ridge plant and the Hanford, Wash. plutonium works...
When Dr. William Grosvenor Pollard, 40, executive director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, arrived in Atlanta this week for a scientific conference, he brought with him several books on the Old Testament for spare-time reading. Reason: Physicist Pollard is studying for the Episcopal ministry...
Left-handed Davidson got his start early. When he was three, his father used to toss a ball with his son in the backyard at Marion, N.C. Since then, Billy Joe has pitched two no-hitters, won 20 straight for Oak Ridge (N.C.) Military Institute, averaging 18 strike-outs a game. His semi-pro record: 15-5. Cleveland plans to keep its expensive, draftable youngster for a ten-day tryout, then ship him to the San Diego farm club...
...running his own research laboratory when Monsanto bought it in 1936, took him along as research boss. During World War II he bossed the purification of plutonium, from 1945 to 1948 ran the Oak Ridge project, is now a Government adviser on top-secret scientific matters. For Monsanto, seventh biggest...
...States but in the history of nations." As a top member of the visiting British atomic-energy mission, he knew all the secrets of the Los Alamos weapons center. At Columbia University, he worked on the gaseous-diffusion method for separating U-235 -the process now used exclusively at Oak Ridge. He knew all the ideas for improving bombs, and the thinking on the hydrogen bomb. Fuchs fed his material to stubby Harry Gold, who took it to Yakovlev at furtive meetings in restaurants and bars, at the end of elevated lines, at a Childs restaurant...