Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gray has not slackened his pace a bit since he left Litton in 1971, when it appeared that he would have to wait too long for Chairman Tex Thornton and then President Roy Ash to step down. Gray moved to the presidency of Connecticut's United Aircraft Corp., world's largest maker of jet engines (Pratt & Whitney). Today he is launching a major diversification for the $2 billion-a-year company. Last week United made a deal to swap $750 million of its stock for the Signal Companies, headquartered in Beverly Hills. Signal had $1.5 billion in sales...
Jordan High School in Los Angeles is virtually a ghetto within a ghetto. Located on 103rd Street, it is bounded on one side by the Jordan Downs housing projects-two-story, ash gray buildings that contain 2,200 families, most of them on welfare. To the east is Alameda Street, the border of Watts, and there are railroad tracks on Alameda, so that when you cross them you know you are entering a different world. In back of Jordan and extending around it in an L-shape is the steel factory. It has been there for 20 years, the smoke...
...site itself consists of an unusually broad expanse of empty land near the heart of metropolitan Boston. A few lone buildings await the bulldozer on the Triangle, which is currently covered by sterile ash-grey dirt, beer cans, auto parts, and other debris. The area has the appearance of being recently bombed out. The suggestion, seriously presented to the City council two months ago, that "victory gardens" be planted on the site while the land lies fallow, seems less than ludicrous...
...Richard Nixon who assembled proud organizational experts to build a super executive machine. The leader of that machine, Roy Ash, is under assault for some of his actions as president of Litton Industries in his pre-White House days...
...frump having an embarrassing amount of trouble hanging on to her husband, played by Henry Fonda. What to do? Why, radical plastic surgery, of course, from head to toe. Even after all that, however, Hank will still have none of her. That's the story line for Ash Wednesday, just filmed in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. A bit sad but not very credible, since the wife is played by Elizabeth Taylor, who looks lovelier than ever as she emerges from her bandages...