Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From "Listening in the Dark," by Donald R. Griffin (1958)--a study of echo-location in bats and other animals...
...poking through the downed helicopters. On the cabin floor of one of the choppers lay the wallet of a dead U.S. adviser-open to a picture of his wife and child. In all, three U.S. advisers-Captain Good, Sergeant William Deal of Mays Landing, N.J., and Specialist 4 Donald Braman of Radcliff, Ky.-were killed in the ambush, and six more wounded. The dead brought to 56 the number of U.S. troops killed so far in South Viet...
...Full Spectrum. By operating as mail-order centers, Singer stores hope to increase their volume sharply without much additional cost. If the idea works, Singer President Donald Kircher, 47, intends to install catalogue counters in 1,400 stores in smaller communities across the U.S. and Canada. (Singer expects that its 200 stores in big cities will stay out of the mail-order business...
Crisp, cool Donald Kircher. a onetime corporation lawyer who took command of the company five years ago, is out to diversify it. In the past two years. Singer has bought three textile-machinery companies, two of which make knitting equipment and are profiting mightily from the current fashion for knitted goods. In electronics. Singer has a subsidiary called HRB-Singer, Inc., which does military research and development, and another called Singer Metrics, which makes spectrum analyzers and other microwave equipment. Other Singer subsidiaries manufacture carpetmaking machines, even sell power tools to Sears, Roebuck. Such side efforts in 1962 accounted...
...from 13 to two-had their last Christmas with their mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Baker, at their home in Battle Lake. Minn. Three weeks later they were orphans, when the Bakers' pickup truck flipped over and killed both parents. In Charlotte, N.C.. Donald, an executive at the local plant of the Celanese Corp.. read the newspaper account of the accident and at once knew what to do. His wife quickly agreed. "There is room for them here-in our home and in our hearts." the Meyers told their local priest, and asked...