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Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: chula vista ca usa
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When I went to Nuc Power School outside of Saratoga Springs NY, the old couple that owned the huge house that had been made into several apartments, both had worked on the atomic bomb development in New Mexico. The old fellow was a physics/math type who would meet with Oppenheimer all the time and said he was very hard to work with. The old wife was a secretary and she had it pretty easy just typing reports and letters and such. Funny thing though was the old fellow was super smart with theoretical physics but didn't know which end of a screwdriver to hold! I fixed the huge old boiler the house had so we wouldn't freeze in the winter and he was amazed that a youngster like me could do something like that while he was explaining the theory of heating water to make steam and such. Interesting couple and I am glad I got to know them.
John
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