People and things. CERN Courier, Dec 1989, v. 29(10)

The article reports on achievements of various people, staff changes and position opportunities within the CERN organization and contains news updates on upcoming or past events. Friends, colleagues and admirers of Georges Charpak filled the CERN Auditorium on 30 October for a special seminar marking the formal retirement of an acknowledged master of the particle detector business. The 223 nine-metre superconducting dipoles (half of the total required) for the HERA electron-proton collider being built at the German DESY Laboratory in Hamburg will be the last superconducting magnets to be built by A sea Brown Boveri (ABB) of Mannheim. Retiring as Chairman of the Users' Organization for the US Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) to be built in Texas, Lee Pondrom of Wisconsin joked that, with no cafeteria to complain about, prospective SSC users had to discuss something else