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...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...
...impressed by Kayira's "journey of unbelievable hardship" that he quickly wrote Skagit for aid. While the boy spent hours in the U.S.I.S. library boning up on algebra, Skagit's students raised more than $1,100 to guarantee clothing and round-trip fare. Schoolteacher William Atwood, father of seven, offered a free home at the Atwoods' roomy farmhouse in nearby Bayview. Mrs. Atwood quashed the only unpleasantness in the entire affair. Huffed one neighbor: "What if he wants to take your daughter to a dance?" Replied Mrs. Atwood: "That will be fine. My girls love to dance...
Erasing the Doubts. The prestigious U.S. delegation, headed by Dillon and including U.S. Inter-American Development Bank Director Robert Cutler, ICA Latin American Chief Rollin Atwood, Development Loan Fund Managing Director Vance Brand, Assistant Treasury Secretary Graydon Upton, listened, argued, learned. Dillon's speech erased most of the Latin Americans' doubts...
...dirt in platoon combat formation. "That looked like hell," grumped Heinl, "but when we can't find any mistakes, the time will have come for us to leave." In the sprawling headquarters of the International Cooperation Administration in downtown Port-au-Prince, ICA Director for Latin America Rollin Atwood wound up a rigid, five-day inspection and said: "From a year ago, Haiti has made tremendous progress...
Divorced. By Donna Atwood, 33, retired professional skater (Ice Capades), U.S. junior women's skating champion in 1941: John H. Harris, 60, producer of Ice Capades; after nine years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica. Calif...