Word: dauntlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vice president at Summers Gyroscope, a major maker of guidance systems for missiles. As chief engineer at Douglas' giant El Segundo plant from 1936 to 1958, Heinemann won fame as the exponent of clean, uncluttered aircraft, designed such famous Navy aircraft as the Skyraider attack bombers and the Dauntless dive bombers. ¶E. Clinton Towl, 54, succeeded the late Leon A. Swirbul as president of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. Towl was one of the founders of the company in 1929, along with Board Chairman Leroy Grumman and Swirbul. His specialty is administration and finance...
Delinquency in Lions. Mrs. Adamson called her prodigious pet Elsa because it reminded her of a friend (not presumably Elsa Maxwell, the social lion tamer), and is quite formidable in her own way-one of those dauntless dames of the British Empire able to treat the fauna of 120,000 square miles of African semidesert with the regal confidence of a Scarsdale matron patting into place the play patterns of her daughter's age group. Only such a woman would speak of the gruesome noises outside the camp at night as the "chuckles" of a hyena...