Word: burbank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While he is away from Burbank, the man who tends the headquarters shop is Executive Vice President A. Carl Kotchian, 51, a onetime Price Waterhouse accountant who is virtually Haughton's alter ego. And then there is Lockheed's biggest intangible asset, Vice President (for Advanced Projects) Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson, a $114,507-a-year (including bonuses) design genius who bosses the Burbank "skunk works," where Lockheed keeps its surprises a secret. Broadnosed, with piercing blue eyes and a bubbling humor, Johnson resembles a sober W. C. Fields. He decided to become a plane builder at twelve...
...past exploits were hardly enough to save the company. What did save it was a new plane, whose basic design Bob Gross conceived while lingering over coffee one morning in the lobby of Burbank's Union Air Terminal. The plane was Lockheed's Electra 10, a twin-engine, all-metal, ten-passenger ship with the highest load/gross-weight ratio and the lowest price ($36,000) of any comparable aircraft of its time. The Electra 10 sold solidly to U.S. airlines as well as to carriers in Latin America and eight European countries (Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich...
...Lockheed ran into the U.S. Neutrality Act, which forbade either U.S. or British citizens to ship or fly the planes from the U.S. to Britain. Court Gross helped devise a stratagem. Lockheed bought a wheat farm on the North Dakota-Canada border, flew its bombers there from the Burbank assembly line, hitched them to teams of horses. The horses, supposedly not subject to the laws of man, drew the planes across the boundary. Canadians unhitched the animals, let British pilots ferry the aircraft on to England...
Born. To Andy Williams, 34, TV's top-rated weekly crooner (Moon River), and Claudine Longet Williams, 24, his French-born wife: their second child, first son; in Burbank, Calif...
...King Sisters vocal trio, then last summer out-trouped the Trapps by massing his wife, six daughters and two sons, their seven husbands and wives, and 23 of his grandchildren to form ABC-TV's singing King Family (theme song: Love in the Home); of a stroke; in Burbank, Calif...