april july worked manhattan_project world war secretary war executive assistant directors graduate obtained degree political science started working lawrence february later year arrived new_mexico march established office office manager visitors answering telephone making travel arrangements arranging security passes accommodation taking notes telephone calls september married chemist working laboratory changed surname post war years secretary executive assistant director november secretary executive assistant founding director helped establish new scientific laboratory new site later life moved colorado served board early life born berkeley california april grew california entered obtained degree political science graduation studied travelled new_york europe returning berkeley got job secretary director february replacing left marry manhattan_project began working nuclear weapon design manhattan_project world war lawrence loaned time general work working time robert returned travel told beautiful place later recalled lawrence reluctantly let immediately started working time taking disused office physics professor absent leave november arrived new_mexico march son peter nurse found new_mexico pretty place dusty cold snowy finished fast spectacular unfinished buildings mud trucks telephone line office initially established east palace purchasing system place bought money spend rest war trying office moved office manager visitors answering telephone listen calls notes director manhattan_project brigadier general told line correspondence numerous documents end handled travel arrangements security passes accommodation noted gets credit keeping entire bomb project head actually managed director office kept organized took notes phone conversations managed correspondence far sites helped man managed life stay tasks assigned married chemist working project ceremony house september local judge conduct ceremony project security allowed know couple family allowed attend brother recruited work project technician hand bride away guests included weeks later assembled wedding hugh pregnant wanted quit working demands project great kept refusing requests eventually recruited office replacement later life war secretary executive assistant director november secretary executive assistant founding director served capacity december likened job working close feeling group people strange land group people isolated rest world trying special said moving site evoked memories corps frontier recalled feeling independence adventure early days site big fancy colorful tent alongside house explained place sit meeting symbol sort crisis day emphasized bob managed people feeling tremendous urgency getting thing getting fast getting cheap later secretary recalled new employees considered hard know early days unlike knew exactly needed things moved colorado served board died natural causes home july survived daughters husband robert died
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