Word: bells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvey Gaylord, 55, became president and chief executive officer of Bell Aircraft Corp., succeeding Leston P. Faneuf, president since 1956, who will spend his time laying down broad policy. Buffalo-born Gaylord graduated from Princeton and the American Institute of Banking, left the investment business in 1941 to join Bell as assistant to the president, quickly rose to take over as president of Bell's helicopter subsidiary in Fort Worth in 1951. As president, Gaylord will divide his time between Fort Worth and Buffalo, regroup the company's defense operations in an effort to stem sagging sales...
From Addis Ababa last week, TIME Correspondent James Bell cabled: "His face as sadly impassive as that of a Byzantine saint. His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I rose from a straight-back chair in his paneled library as I bowed into the room. As we shook hands before a large window overlooking a garden, a peacock screamed and a large lion walked by on the lawn. Then the Emperor gave me the news about his ancient Christian kingdom, perched Swiss-green and cool above Africa's desert heat. The news: Ethiopia has adopted a new posture in foreign...
...justly-famed riot of 1834, a protest that has no equal in Harvard history. It started mildly enough--a few bonfires in the Yard livened by gun-powder-stuffed logs--then a dispute between the Latin professor and the freshmen and sophomores, and the inevitable Faculty crackdown. The College bell started to ring mysteriously during the night, and more broken windows appeared every...
...from 66½ to 48½, Martin from 62½ to 38¼, Douglas from 59¼ to 46, North American from 52⅝ to' 37¼, Grumman from 30¼ to 24⅜. In the past fortnight, nine aircraft stocks scraped new 1959 lows. Among them: McDonnell, Bell, Temco, Northrop, United Aircraft...
...bell, Fullmer began to show a bewildering set of new tactics: in business as a Pier Six battler, he had turned Fancy Dan. Instead of ducking his head and plowing in, Fullmer danced tantalizingly beyond the reach of Basilio's deadly left hook. When Basilio swung, Fullmer countered with deft precision. When Basilio crowded him into a corner, Fullmer calmly retreated into a cocoon of arms and shoulders, then emerged to give better than he got. When Basilio clinched, Fullmer wrestled him about as he pleased and tossed in an occasional elbow for old time's sake...