Word: bell
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...that has characterized his six-year reign as NASA's boss-a job that the North Carolina born lawyer owed to his solid friendships with Lyndon Johnson and Oklahoma's late Senator Robert Kerr- Webb declared: "If any man in this room asks for whom the Apollo bell tolls, it tolls for him and me, as well as for Grissom, White and Chaffee. It tolls for every astronaut test pilot who will lose his life in the space-simulated vacuum of a test chamber or the real vacuum of space...
Otherwise, Harvard looks strong. Steve Schoonover holds the University record in the pole vault -- 15 ft. 7 3/4 in. He is backed up by Pete Lazarus and Dave Bell, both of whom have been over 14 feet...
Nevertheless, Percy has run ahead of his personal timetable in the past-most notably when he became president of Bell & Howell at 29, ten years before he expected to. In speeches from New England to the West Coast, he has impressed audiences with his articulateness and quickness of mind. He has a reservoir of sympathy as a result of the still-unsolved murder of his daughter Valerie last September. In the Senate, Percy got off to a whirlwind start, persuading 27 colleagues to co-sponsor a bill calling for a Government-supported private corporation to help slum residents buy their...
Snickering Critics. No one gets more satisfaction from the new products than Ampex President William E. Roberts, 52. Once the No. 2 man at Bell & Howell, Roberts joined Ampex in 1961 after the loosely managed company had tumbled deep into the red. Many of Roberts' remedies were routine: he centralized administrative control, for example, and lopped off unprofitable product lines. Yet, despite Ampex' shortage of cash, Roberts also ordered a lavish step-up in research and development spending. R. & D. engineers and scientists were set to work on so many new projects that snickering critics took to calling...
Lamont is survived by his wife, the former Elinor B. Miner; two sons, Edward '48 and Lansing '52; a daughter, Mrs. Andrew (Elinor Branscombe) Anderson-Bell; and two brothers, Austin '27 and Corliss...