Word: commissioner
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Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr., 32, Air Force captain, 150 lbs., 5 ft. 9½ in., blue eyes, brown hair. Methodist. Born: Shawnee, Okla. After a hitch in the Marines he attended the University of Hawaii, got an Army commission, transferred to the Air Force. Rolled up 2,300 flying hours...
He urged that the separate civilian and military space agencies be brought under a single over-all unit similar to the Atomic Energy Commission. Hayward, boss of the Navy's research and development programs, testified before the Senate Space subcommittee.
His idea of writing a naval history of the war was relayed to F.D.R. by Judge Samuel Rosenman, and then to Secretary of the Navy Knox, who arranged for Morison to receive a commission as a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve--provided he passed the physical. With characteristic vigor...
Sir John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, and Siobhan McKenna will perform this summer for the Cambridge Drama Festival in an all-Shakespeare program. They will appear in a 2000-seat theater being built for the Metropolitan District Commission on Soldiers Field Road past the Stadium.
Few experts look for another spectacular rise in the next few months. One factor is that the shortage of stock is easing as more and more issues come on sale to sponge up excess funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission reported a record 171 filings in March for issues of...