Word: corp
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...getting the astronaut out of the capsule after landing in the sea. Grissom was in charge of the capsule control system. Glenn specialized in the capsule's cockpit layout, contributed substantially to its design. Among other things, he suggested an auxiliary power system that was adopted by McDonnell Aircraft Corp., designer and builder of the spacecraft. Glenn's own Friendship 7 (which he named himself after consulting his family) was tailor-made to his specifications. He color-coded his instrument panel, arranged the 165 meters, dials, toggles, levers and lamps to suit his taste, and marked guidelines on his window...
John Yardley, 37, base manager, capsule designer, and an engineer for McDonnell Aircraft Corp., the space capsule's builders, has responsibility for the proper functioning of the capsule's multiplicity of systems, subsystems and backup systems. Handsome and softspoken, he spent more than a year preparing the Friendship 7 for its orbital flight. It was chiefly his advice that led to the decision to leave Glenn's retrorockets attached on Friendship 7's reentry. Yardley graduated from Iowa State College and earned a master's degree in applied mechanics from Washington University in 1950, worked...
...Aspen, Colo., which likes to think of itself as the U.S. ski capital. "No Vacancy" signs were up everywhere. The Aspen Ski Corp.'s gross for the last three months was 15% ahead of the same period last season. Long the favorite resort of the dedicated skier because of its constant supply of dry, powder snow, Aspen has been discovered recently by the snowbunny set. Grumbles William R. Dunnaway, proprietor of the Aspen Times: "The new people are the sort who don't get up until noon, ski for an hour, then start getting ready for cocktails...
...more than any other U.S. automaker, American Motors Corp. under George Romney has been a one-man show. Last week, when Romney stepped out as chairman and president of A.M.C. to campaign for the Republican nomination for Governor of Michigan, the company's directors chose two men to take his place...
...Throb. Nonetheless, problems loom for A.M.C. One of the new management's first chores will be to find a replacement for Sales Vice President Virgil E. Boyd, 49, who was lured to Chrysler Corp. as vice president and general sales manager last week by a "tremendous offer I just couldn't afford to refuse." A.M.C. earnings fell from $48 million in 1960 to $23.6 million last year as spending on production facilities and merchandising was hiked to meet stiffening competition from Big3 compacts. Wall Street analysts are generally bearish about prospects for continued A.M.C. growth. Rambler, they reason...