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...Dirty Trick. His eye soon lit on Tillinghast, then vice president for international operations of the Bendix Corp., Detroit-based maker of aviation, missile and auto components. Breech, as a former Bendix president, had been so impressed with Tillinghast's legal work for the firm that years earlier he had persuaded him to move to Detroit, where Tillinghast subsequently joined the company...
...chairman (he still is). For himself, he arranged a contract that would continue his in come even if Hughes regained control of TWA and-as was fully to be expected-fired both of them. "It was kind of a dirty trick," Breech says today, "taking him out of Bendix where he was doing well and putting him in a business he knew nothing about...
...missile splurge, plus the nation's effort to overtake the Soviet Sputnik in the peaceful exploration of space, demanded airborne equipment bulging with electronic innards. As a result, the traditional airframe industry broadened into today's aerospace industry, in which such non-planemakers as IBM, Bendix and General Electric play critical roles. Soon a new business climate emerged. At the top, the Pentagon made shrewd use of its monopsony-one customer but many suppliers-to foster competition. To meet the unsparing military demand for excellence, companies undertook research and development on a hitherto undreamed of scale; today engineers...
Marriage Revealed. Althea Gibson, 38, former top-ranked U.S. women's tennis star (TIME cover, Aug. 26, 1957), now trying it as a pro golfer (33rd on the ladies' money list this year); and William Darben, 40, production coordinator for Bendix Corp.; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...
Johnny Nobody. In a peaceful Irish village, a blasphemous American author (the late William Bendix) enrages the Roman Catholic townsfolk by denying the existence of God and defying whatever powers there be to strike him dead. A stranger (Aldo Ray) steps out of a church and shoots him. Soon after, the anonymous killer, dubbed "Johnny Nobody" by press and public because he appears to be amnesic, is tried for murder. Defense counsel calls his chief witness, the village priest, and asks bluntly: "Do you believe that act was the direct intervention of Almighty...