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...which grew big by making little nothings (transistors and integrated circuits), owes much of its $580 million-a-year success to John Erik Jonsson, 65, who assembled the corporate team that converted the old Geophysical Service Inc. to electronics after World War II. Last week, having reached retirement age, Brooklyn-born Jonsson stepped down as board chairman. His successor: Patrick Eugene Haggerty, 52, who as vice president and then president during the firm's remarkable growth matched Jonsson's financial know-how with his own expertise in electrical engineering. Haggerty will stay on as chief executive officer...
...short supply throughout the country, and the government is not likely to give more than mere sympathy. Nor can the fruit farmers expect much of a break in the weather. Israeli Meteorologist Leo Krown has predicted that through January, local rainfall will be below normal -and the Brooklyn-born scientist speaks with authority. In each of the past 16 years, he reports in the Journal of Applied Meteorology, his new method for long-range winter rainfall forecasts for the eastern Mediterranean area would have been 100% accurate...
Straight A's. Brooklyn-born John Roche is very much an intellectual. But he is also a political activist who does not subscribe to the view, common among intellectuals, that academe and the smoke-filled room are incompatible worlds. Until last year, Roche was national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, an energetic organization that straddles both communities, and he is still an A.D.A. vice chairman. He was a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey in 1964 and has also served Johnson, most recently on a fact-finding mission to Saigon in June...
There is no new Cabinet Secretary yet. Busby's other duties will be divided mainly between McPherson and another new White House aide, Joseph Califano Jr., 34. Brooklyn-born and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Califano is moving up fast in the L.B.J. entourage only two months after being lured over from Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's staff...
...Caesar conquered resoundingly. The old hall was dressed up to look like an opera house, with garlands of flowers ringing the grand tier and an Egyptian-style proscenium jutting out to the apron of the stage. Leading a competent cast of 200, Metropolitan Opera Bass-Baritone Giorgio Tozzi and Brooklyn-born Soprano Evelyn Lear, making her U.S. opera debut after an admirable, eight-year career in Europe, managed Handel's long, difficult, rapid-fire arias with fine finesse...