Word: atwoods
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...average in two years, occasionally cracks 80. drives up to 285 yards, has won several Negro tournaments. "I have," says she, "a God-given talent for being able to do things with a ball." - Almost half a century after he entered public life, forceful, hawk-faced Carl Atwood Hatch, 72, decided to call it a day. Harried by failing eyesight, the onetime (1933-49) Democratic Senator from New Mexico reluctantly retired from the fed eral judgeship he has held since his depar ture from Washington. But mindful that appointments to the federal bench carry lifetime tenure, the crusading author...
George A. Goldberg '63 of Quincy House and Mount Vernon, N.Y., was elected president, F. James Levinson '64 of Lowell House and Pittsburgh, Pa. vice-president, and Miss Christine F. Atwood '63 of Slater House and Storrs, Conn., treasurer...
...with a Slide Rule. So many variables would appall most executives, but they fail to dismay North American's tense, wiry President John Leland ("Lee") Atwood, 57. An oldtime aeronautical engineer who began his career as a designer at Douglas Aircraft and still keeps a slide rule on his desk, Atwood came to North American with bluff Chairman James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger in 1934. The man primarily responsible for North American's diversification, Atwood prides himself on the fact that the company is now so broadly based that such setbacks as the washout of the 6-70 program...
...future evolution of the industry," says nimbus-maned Lee Atwood, president of North American Aviation, "will separate the lucky from the unlucky, the thoughtful from the compulsive-the men, as it were, from the boys." A shakeout of companies is inevitable, as it has been in the maturing stages of every major U.S. industry, from autos to appliances. But for the lean and the resourceful, the sky is no limit. Says Tom Jones: "Space vehicles can and must be built, operated and maintained at a minimum cost without sacrificing performance or reliability. The race will be won by those companies...
...Reporting on the diverse products that he predicts will give his company 1961 sales of more than $1.2 billion, North American Aviation's reflective President John Leland ("Lee") Atwood, 56, suggested that it was time somebody coined a new name for his industry. Now that airplane makers are hip-deep in rocketry, astronautics and electronics, and sometimes no longer making airplanes at all, says Atwood, "what was once called the aircraft industry has clearly become something else that almost defies classification." Atwood dismissed one common substitute, "the aerospace industry," as inadequate to cover North American's work with...