Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, beneath their elation, Boeing's brass could only feel a certain sense of continuing frustration. The B-2707, of course, will be by far the most costly airplane ever built. It will fly faster (1,800 m.p.h.), higher (75,000 ft.) and farther (4,000 miles) than any commercial airplane in history. To overcome temperatures of 500 degrees at the speed and altitude in which it will operate, it will be covered with titanium and stainless steel six times tougher than aluminum. For the 250 to 350 passengers aboard, it will be a winged arrow, cutting the flying...
...Austin, her job with Dodge has never taken her to Detroit, she knows few of the Chrysler Corp.'s top brass, and until she was spotted for the Dodge Rebellion by Don Schwab, Hollywood producer for Manhattan-based advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, she was virtually unknown. Pam was under contract to Warner Bros, and MGM, made a few pilot films for TV, and did a stint as a dancer in Tony Martin's nightclub act, but her career was going nowhere. The Dodge Rebellion revolutionized all that. Last year she earned $34,000 plus residuals...
...jouncy, snub-nosed Jeep has been just plugging along. Developed by the old Willys-Overland Corp. for the U.S. War Department in 1940, the general purpose (hence, G.P. and finally Jeep) vehicle endeared itself to G.I.s and Army brass during World War II. "America's greatest contribution to modern warfare," General George C. Marshall grandiloquently called it. After the war, Willys found a still-brisk military demand for the Jeep, but ran into trouble on its passenger line, sold out to Kaiser...
Lyndon Johnson is usually quieter at this time of year because he is a man who likes to preserve his options, but this year the lid is tighter than ever -probably because the options are fewer and harder to choose among. Last year, Cabinet members and top Administration brass headed straight from their ranch-house sessions to brief reporters on spending plans or to tell the press of the President's thinking on the progress and problems of the year past...
...last Friday's concert, the instrumentalists played well, notwithstanding a few problem in the brass section. But conductor Elliot Forbes' chorus was less effective, especially in the middle section. The Choral Society sounded like a boy's chorus -- appropriately innocent and light, but a little superficial in tone -- while the Glee Club overpowered the women and also many of the more delicate rhythms of the Schutz. Both choruses had good diction, however, and they sang better together than separately...