Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roused hot criticism from the local press, police, prosecutors, and even Mayor James H. J. Tate, who told the police to ignore it. But the sharpest words came from a less predictable source. "A free and unfettered press is indispensable to a free country," said Chief Justice John C. Bell Jr. of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. If it is "muzzled or gagged, crime will run even more rampant." Added Justice Michael A. Musmanno: "Curbing crime news is like recommending that no one talk about cancer, on the theory that silence will cause cancer somehow to disappear...
...group in the U.S., has sung the oratorio every Christmas for the past 146 years. This season's uncut performance at Symphony Hall was sold out, attracting a devoted cross section of Bostonians to whom the Messiah is as integral a part of Christmas as the Beacon Hill bell ringers or the oyster stuffing for the turkey...
...Bell Helicopter. When the television scare came, Wasserman reacted early. He established Revue Productions, MCA's TV producing subdivision, which has now become Universal Television. He felt that TV should go to film and helped prove it with Armour's Stars Over Hollywood (1950-51), one of TV's first filmed series. When independent movie producers led the flight from Hollywood that nearly killed off the industry there, Wasserman sensed that the advantages abroad of cheap labor and low taxes would only be temporary; so he stayed in Hollywood, bought Universal Pictures, and began to build...
...decade ago to a record $136 million in the last fiscal year. Its boss is John G. Martin, 59, the British-born grandson of one of the original Heubleins, who owns 10% of the company (which he runs with the help of President Ralph Hart) and likes to sip Bell's twelveyear-old Scotch, another of the products that Heublein distributes...
...Haakon Ingolf) Romnes, 57, was elected president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to succeed retiring Eugene McNeely. Romnes, the Wisconsin-born son of an immigrant Norwegian baker, made his mark at A.T. & T. as an electrical engineer, won six patents in circuit design at Bell Laboratories before moving on to the operating side. As president of Western Electric, A.T. & T.'s manufacturing arm, from 1959 until early this year, he shaved the lead time on orders and deliveries for such critical items as cable. Romnes is a gentle and friendly executive whose great strength is persuasion and persistence...