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...denounced Lockheed for "deliberately operating with false figures and data," prodded the Bundestag committee into reversing itself and approving the funds for the Transall and, for good measure, pointedly postponed a $70 million order for 33 Lockheed F-104 trainers. Still boiling, Von Hassel also demanded that Lockheed Chairman Courtlandt Gross visit Bonn to make a personal apology for Lockheed's actions. Gross did not show up in Bonn, but he did cable to suggest a meeting with Von Hassel when the German minister visits the U.S. later this month. The conversation should be interesting...
Birdlike Wings. Each can make a good argument that it should get the award. At North American, Chairman Lee Atwood holds a trump as builder of the RS-70, whose top speed of 2,000 m.p.h. makes it by far the fastest bomber ever produced. Chairman Courtlandt Gross's Lockheed has never built a big supersonic plane but gained experience and repute with its highly successful F-104 Starfighter. President William Allen's Boeing has the most passenger jet experience as builder of the 707. It has also spent $17 million of its own on SST research, designing...
...Courtlandt Gross, chairman, Lock heed Aircraft Corp...
Competition's tropical-like growth stems mostly from the new economy's technological explosion, which is rapidly outmoding the methods, machines and products of only yesterday. Courtlandt Gross, 58, chairman of Lockheed Aircraft, the nation's biggest defense contractor, loses exact count of the division-strength army that Lockheed now uses to devise new products and processes to keep ahead of competitors-but the number runs to 13.000 or 14.000 scientists and engineers. Says Gross: "I suspect there's more science and engineering in a button today than there was 20 years ago." In, steel, Europe...
...better vacations. But the real issue at stake was the fate of a union shop at Lockheed. The International Association of Machinists had demanded a union shop; a three-man fact-finding board came out for it; President Kennedy supported it. Alone in opposing it was Lockheed Chairman Courtlandt Gross, who insisted that every worker should be able to decide for himself whether he wanted to join the union. When the week's ballots were counted, 85% of the Lockheed voters moved to accept a contract that excluded any provision for a union shop, thus rejecting both the union...