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...Space Systems Division of Avco Corporation in Lowell will construct the Pilgrim craft and might even design the launching craft, Huguenin said. This question will not be decided until the project gets final government approval expected early this summer...
Harvard would supply the special instruments for the satellite. Huguenin and his 'staff would design this equipment and would then sub-contract for its construction, he said. Avco would put all these pieces together and would probably produce the power supply and the ground communication links...
With their Avco 1790 computer humming through thousands of responses on a quiet street in Wilmington, Tarr, Crump, and Ginsburg seem anxious to get on to other things. For instance, there are the 200 page movie script and 30 capsule plots for a T.V. situation comedy that Crump's roommate, John P. Bochner '66, has written on the match theme. Ginsburg is Bochner's agent, and he is now trying to get both the movie and the T.V. series produced. From the "fabulous contacts". Tarr says were established throughout the country this summer, the corporation is beginning to inundate...
...Made by the independent Bendix Home Appliances, Inc., which sold out to Avco in 1950, was in turn sold to Philco. The Bendix brand name has disappeared...
...Adviser Walter Heller and Ambassador Kenneth Galbraith are now back at their academic posts (Minnesota and Harvard), widely sought after and well paid as consultants and lecturers. The University of Pittsburgh's Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield is also chairman of Smith-Corona and a director of Studebaker and Avco. M.I.T. Nutritionist Samuel A. Goldblith is also a vice president of United Fruit. Around Boston, particularly along famed Route 128, there are some 1,000 space and electronics firms in whose executive echelons businessmen and scientists are often indistinguishable. Professors do consulting work for research firms, often earning double...