Groves worked effectively with the scientific leadership of the Manhattan Project, including the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whom he cleared -- and whom, he said later, he never regretted clearing -- as essential despite his associations with Communists.
Farrell and Groves worked out new, simplified procedures for centralized procurement that provided the flexibility needed to get projects done on time with the accountability that such enormous expenditures demanded.
Shady Grove worked with an outside company to secure financing for some patients.
Williams-Grove worked in elementary schools and preschools before applying for a job as a library clerk in the mid-1970s afthe the Central Library first opened.
Groves' initial work was supported by the NSF, but to develop the technology for use in pharmaceutical research, the Groves team, which includes graduate students Wei Liu and Xiongyi Huang, is receiving funding from a Princeton program aimed at supporting concepts that are risky but have potential for broad impact.
A flashing sign cycled through three messages: "Cremation Space $395... Monuments Sold Here... Think Spring!" Across the street are two tombstone firms: "Lincoln Granite, family owned and operated since 1903"; and "Clinton Grove Granite Works, est.
Grove, who worked at The Boston Globe and ABC News before going to YouTube, was part of the company's political team that met with almost every candidate at the start of the campaign season.
In 2000 when the state of California decided to put a freeway through Mr. Maloof's citrus grove, it worked out an agreement to dismantle the house and move it three miles away, where it now functions as a museum and as headquarters of the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts.
To any visitor, the sloping patch of grass offers a stunning view of the Grove's working waterfront and across Biscayne Bay to the downtown Miami skyline.
Groves went to work for Remington Rand, the punch-card tabulator and up-and-coming computer concern, and settled in Darien, Conn.
