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...according to present procedure, only one service was invited. But early one day last week, five Navy F4H-1 Phantom II jets roared down the runway at Los Angeles International Airport and raced eastward. Their goals: Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, a new transcontinental speed record, and the Bendix Trophy-one of the most coveted awards in U.S. aviation...
...work. To prove this was not so, he borrowed $8,000 to start Abilities, talked subcontracts out of Servomechanisms Inc. and the Sperry Gyroscope division of Sperry Rand. Now his impressive list of customers who subcontract work to Abilities includes Republic Aviation, Dictaphone Corp., Sikorsky and Bendix...
...humorists, she thrives on embellishment, taking small facts and inflating them into outrageous acts of hyperbole. When one of her boys came home with a dead horseshoe crab, she put it down the Dispose-All in fact, but in print she claimed it had been stored in the Bendix and washed with a load of sheets. "You take the thing, touch it up, improve it," she says, "and turn it the way you want...
After eight months of shopping. Trans World Airlines finally got a new president and chief executive officer. He is Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., 50, former vice president of Bendix Corp., and a friend of onetime Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest Breech, who joined the TWA board as a representative of the creditors who lent the line $165 million for new jets...
Tillinghast, a varsity football center at Brown University ('32), graduated from Columbia Law School in 1935 and joined a Manhattan law firm. In 1942, when Ernie Breech became president at Bendix, he signed up the law firm, and Tilling hast handled Bendix affairs. In 1957 Tillinghast joined Bendix, became director of its foreign operations...