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...After the fire, it was left to Schirra, the commander of the three-man back-up crew that included space rookies Walt Cunningham and Donn Eisele, to help oversee the gutting and redesign of the ship. Schirra was a bear about the job, stalking the factory floor, poking his nose into whatever the engineers were doing and making it clear when he did not like what he saw. If he wasn't satisfied with the answers he got, he'd go up to the executive suites and buttonhole Storms himself. "You guys want to fix this ship...
Exclusive Resorts, the largest destination club with 300 properties, dealt with availability issues by doubling its number of beachfront homes to 80, says Donn Davis, CEO of the Denver-based firm, which also started a member waiting list and added a budget membership level that gets no holiday bookings...
...student of foreign languages is not lost on Ronzone's peers. "He can't speak any language at all," laughs John Hammond, the Pistons' vice president of basketball operations. "Yet he travels to these obscure places and builds lasting relationships with all kinds of people. It's amazing." Adds Donn Nelson, the president of basketball operations for the Dallas Mavericks and one of Ronzone's old friends: "Tony's success is a tribute to his personality. He's just--I guess the word is unembarrassable...
...Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, he became the first head coach of the Saudi national team. "It was right after the Gulf War in '91, so I hesitated," he recalls. "Then the prince offered to triple my salary." At the 1994 Goodwill Games in Russia he ran into Donn Nelson. "I couldn't believe how many people Tony knew and how much knowledge he had accumulated about international players," says Nelson. "I told him, you've got an incredible niche. You've got to bring this...
...won’t be back until at least New Year’s,” said Lowell production manager Donn Leonard...