Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans know of George Washington Carver, Ralph Bunche, Jackie Robinson and Senator Edward Brooke. The names of Pedro Nino, Nino Estevanico, Matthew Henson and Dr. Charles Drew are less likely to ring a bell. Yet these men too had an important part in the making of America, and as a congressional hearing in Manhattan pointed up last week, many legitimate Negro heroes have been overlooked by whites and Negroes alike...
...Chicago's Bell & Howell, it sometimes seems, officers' country is open to anyone but out-and-out minors. The founders, Movie Theater Projectionist Donald Bell"and Camera Repairman Albert Howell, were only 38 and 28 when they set up shop in 1907, and youth has been serving the top jobs ever since. In 1917, the reins went to 30-year-old Joseph McNabb, who in turn was followed in 1949 by 29-year-old Charles H. Percy, who seven years ago turned the presidency over to 34-year-old Peter G. Peterson...
...middle age is setting in, relatively speaking. Last week, at 41, Peterson climbed upstairs to Bell & Howell's chairmanship, vacant since 1966 when Illinois Republican Percy campaigned for the U.S. Senate. Into Peterson's old office moved Robert A. Charpie, formerly president of Union Carbide's electronics division and, at 42, something of a corporate veteran...
More, More, More. Youngsters have taken Bell & Howell a long way. The founders, who stuck pretty much to movie equipment, provided Hollywood with its first reliable projectors and cameras, could fairly boast that they "took the flickers out of the flicks." Chuck Percy sought new fields, led Bell & Howell deep into such areas as microfilm and mailing systems, business machines and bindery gear...
...turn, Peterson pressed Bell & Howell to become "more innovative, more proprietary, more systems-oriented." Among Bell & Howell's successes under Peterson are a classroom projector that uses convenient filmstrip cassettes; a "Language Master" teaching device that allows children to see and hear a word, then record their own pronunciation for comparison; and an inexpensive ($12,600) color TV camera...