Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interior; 2) Navy-minded Wilfred J. McNeil (a rear admiral in the Reserve), comptroller of the Defense Department in both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, who says modestly that he thinks that a big industrialist' should get the job; 3) air-and missile-minded Donald A. Quarles, onetime Bell Laboratories executive, later Secretary of the Air Force, now Deputy Secretary of Defense, a scientist and methodical thinker who was considered a shoo-in until vague but potent word got around that the President had misgivings that Quarles had not yet developed a big-picture mind -not enough forest...
...distressed by Communist gains and Sukarno's methods, sat Premier Djuanda Karta-widjaja, an able administrator who has been in virtually every Indonesian Cabinet since 1949. In his first interview with a foreign correspondent since taking office, Djuanda made it quietly clear last week to TIME Correspondent James Bell that he does not recognize the legality of Sukarno's Communist-infested super-council. Said Djuanda: "You must remember that the Constituent Assembly still sits in Bandung. Hence, the solutions in government structure now in evidence are temporary. The Constituent Assembly might well decide that what we need...
...like a mechanical toy. The time for the first quarter-mile: 0:55.3, just 9.5 sec. slower than the world record. "When I heard that time," said Ibbotson later, "I felt sick." At the half-mile mark. the time was a phenomenal 1:55.8. Then Blagrove faded. When the bell clanged at the start of the final quarter-mile lap, the watches clicked...
...Pocket Buzzer. Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania is testing a pocket buzzer to call people out of range of standard telephone bells to the phone. Operated by radio signal from the telephone company's office, the pocket buzzer emits a high-pitched hum whenever the subscriber is wanted, signaling him to head for the nearest phone. Service is being used by doctors, newspapermen, plumbers, salesmen and TV servicemen, in the Bethlehem-Allentown area. Cost: $10 a month for up to 80 calls, 5? extra for each additional call...
...most optimistic report came from the biggest company of all: American Telephone & Telegraph Co. "With no letup in activity," announced A.T.& T. President Frederick R. Kappel, the Bell System's second-quarter operating revenues totaled $1.6 billion, with a net income of $208.5 million, both about 10% better than last year and both new records for the quarter. Parent A.T.&.T.'s net alone climbed to a record $167.9 million v. $153.2 million in 1956, might soon be even higher. Said Kappel: "At present, the rate of earnings on the capital invested in the Bell System...