Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenney's proposal received some eyecatching endorsements. "Ingenious," said Roy Schmidt, senior vice president of the firm that designed the building. "Something that we can all enjoy," said Charlotte Mailliard, a former member of the Landmarks Advisory Board. But Transamerica Chairman John Beckett turned Kenney down. Said Beckett: "This building is like our house. It's where we work and live, and we just don't want an eye on it." Said Kenney: "They just don't speak an artist's language...
...earthlings. Some of the agency's sympathizers blamed the "bean counters" in the Federal Government's budget bureaucracy during the Nixon Administration for forcing NASA to build its Skylab "on the cheap," mainly with leftover hardware from the successful Gemini and Apollo manned spacecraft programs. Astronomer Mark Chartrand III, chairman of New York City's American Museum-Hayden Planetarium, claimed Congress was at fault in its financial shortsightedness. Said he: "Hell, if I had my way, I'd target Skylab to fall on Congress while it is in session...
...John Bucanan Jr. (R-Ala.), member of the subcommittee on Post-Secondary Education in the House of Representatives; Rep. William D. Ford (D-Mich.), chairman of the committee; and Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.), chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities and principle author of the Middle Income Student Assistance Act passed last fall...
...purchased mainly by hobbyists and electronics buffs. Reason: a paucity of programs available to make the investment worthwhile. Now, however, a department store of information called, appropriately enough, The Source is available to anyone with a simple terminal screen and a telephone coupler. Created by William von Meister, 37, chairman of Telecomputing Corp. of America, the new data bank is a pool of information from more than 2,000 programs...
DIED. Lessing Rosenwald, 88, former chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and collector of rare books, prints and drawings which he donated to the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress; in Jenkintown, Pa. Son of Julius Rosenwald, mail-order pioneer who preceded him as Sears chairman, Rosenwald retired from Sears at 48 to devote himself to philanthropy, various political interests and his lifelong passion, collecting...