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...Having spent four years as the Defense Department's $42,000-a-year director of defense research, Malcolm Currie got six-figure job offers from three aerospace companies. He decided to go to Culver City, Calif., as a $180,000-a-year vice president in charge of Hughes Aircraft's guided-missiles projects. They include a $150 million contract to adapt the French-West German Roland antiaircraft missile for use by U.S. forces, that was awarded while Currie was in the Pentagon...
Ivan Goff MGM Studios Culver City, Calif...
...moved from House to Senate (Iowa Democrat John Culver) and another became Governor of California (Democrat Jerry Brown). This year three are aiming at governorships (Delaware Republican Pierre S. du Pont IV, Illinois Republican James Thompson, West Virginia Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV). All three are favored. Seven seek Senate seats: Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, former mayor of Indianapolis; Maryland's Democratic Congressman Paul Sarbanes; Michigan's Democratic Congressman Donald Riegle; Missouri's Republican Attorney General John Danforth; Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman H. John Heinz III; Texas' Republican Congressman Alan Steelman; Vermont's Democratic...
...Perry J. Culver '37, director of Alumni Relations for the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, said last night that "Harvard is a national medical school, which produces a great number of primary care physicians as well as academicians...
...airplane that could fly troops and cargo to the battle zones far above the reach of U-boats. Since metal was in short supply, he constructed his plane from lumber; hence its nickname, the Spruce Goose. Working in a mammoth hangar, which still stands at a Hughes plant in Culver City, Calif., Hughes built the huge eight-engine flying boat, which was as big as today's Boeing...