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...aerospace plants across the country, the mood was no less sulfurous. "A great surprise and deep shock," said Bastian ("Buz") Hello, B-1 division manager of Rockwell International, prime contractor for the program. The champagne bottles that had been chilled in anticipation of a celebration remained corked. The gates that were about to swing open to thousands of new employees stayed closed. Many of the 40,000 executives, technicians and assembly-line workers already assigned to the B-1 from Long Island and Cincinnati to Los Angeles and Seattle talked gloomily of hunting for new jobs. The probability that lots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Carter's Big Decision: Down Goes the B-1, Here Comes the Cruise | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...public. A distinction has to be made between disinterested and uninterested persons in selecting jurors. Our juries were meant to be composed of disinterested persons-those who are impartial-and not only the uninterested, who do not care to find out what is happening in the world around them. Buz Swerkstrom Atlas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: How to Avoid Courtroom Tilt | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Readers of Cartoonist Roy Crane's comic strip "Buz Sawyer" were introduced back in 1966 to an outfit called the U.S. Navy Seals (for Sea, Air and Land), an elite bunch of commandos with which Buz performed deeds of derring-do in Viet Nam. It may have seemed like rousing fantasy to readers, but the fact was that just such an outfit was operating in Viet Nam-where its presence was one of the most closely kept secrets of the war.* Only now, in fact, when the Communists themselves have learned of the Seals' presence the hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Unconventional Commandos | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...soldiers and captured 60 while losing only six dead of their own and none at all to capture. The Navy officially admits only that the Seal teams are operating inside South Viet Nam. Nonetheless, there is reason to believe that Ho Chi Minh does not regard the adventures of Buz Sawyer-who helped destroy a SAM missile site in the North-as either fanciful or funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Unconventional Commandos | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...Corris and Buz Cummins clinched the meet in the next-to-last event by recording the team's fourth sweep -- the two hundred yard breaststroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Down Navy By Sweeping 4 Events | 12/12/1966 | See Source »

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