Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been bigger. Gil McDougald could be forgiven for failing to tag third and score on Mantle's long fly to right. Casey could even overlook Billy Martin's first-inning bobble that had given the Sox their run. (No sooner had Billy received the Babe Ruth Award for his outstanding performance in the 1953 Series, when he let a routine grounder scoot through his legs.) The Indians might win in Boston, but the Yanks would still be right on their backs...
...lowest received and it met specifications. Under ordinary circumstances, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson would have been required to accept the British bid. English Electric's offer was 16% ($964,000) below that of the lowest U.S. bidder, and U.S. purchasing officers must generally award contracts to foreign firms that underbid U.S. companies by at least...
...carries Paul Stapp. Among men who make a business of dealing with danger, he is a legend. Stapp has won a file full of awards and citations, including the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster and, last month, the Air Force's Cheney Award for valor and self-sacrifice. He has ridden his roaring rocket sleds 29 times, personal proof that man is still master of the machines he builds. That is almost a faith with Stapp. Says he: "Man is capable of self-reproduction and even of occasional genetic improvements. He is capable of self-repair...
CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST problems for Government officials will be decided by Trustbuster Stanley Barnes. President Eisenhower has instructed Assistant Attorney General Barnes to rule on where the line of propriety should be drawn. Example: Is it proper for the Defense Department to award a contract to a firm whose president recently returned from a key Government post? Barnes may also bring out an official guidebook for the use of Government officials who still have business interests...
Married. Frank Lloyd, 66, two-time Academy Award-winning Hollywood director (for Divine Lady, 1928; and Cavalcade, 1932); and Virginia Kellogg, 47, script writer (Caged); both for the second time; aboard a yacht as it steamed under the Golden Gate Bridge...