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February 6, 1954

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a reporter at large

A DEACON AT OAK RIDGE

Daniel Lang

REPORTER AT LARGE about Dr. William G. Pollard, the executive director of the Oak Ridge Inst. of Nuclear Studies, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., who after 20 years …