Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOCKHEED Aircraft Corp., a pioneer in plane building and long the biggest U.S. defense contractor, has gained fame through its Constellation and Electra aircraft, its Polaris and Poseidon missiles, its U-2 spy plane. Rolls-Royce Ltd. has become one of Britain's brightest industrial ornaments by making the most luxurious cars in the world, as well as engines for the Concorde supersonic jet, nearly every plane in the Royal Air Force, and rocket and diesel motors for road, rail and water transport in more than 100 countries. Last week those two storied giants threatened to push each other...
Born. To Grace Slick, 31, acid-voiced rock singer, and Paul Kantner, 29, guitarist, both of Jefferson Airplane fame: a daughter; in San Francisco. Name: "god" (a small g). No plans for marriage: god will have no surname. Said Grace: "Art Linkletter and Al Capp will be disappointed to learn that she is very healthy, in spite of what they say about drug-crazed hippies...
...remembers only the pain. As the No. 1 Beatle, he lived one of the most exciting, financially successful and creative lives of the rock era. But what sticks in his mind today is not the joy of the pop classics he wrote with Paul McCartney, but the misery that fame brought him, as well as the suppression of ego required by working in the group. It was Paul McCartney who quit the Beatles last spring and who is now formally seeking to dissolve the group in a London court. The only thing Lennon regrets about that, or so he says...
...unique as it is unexpected, the Bassett Hospital is a 183-bed facility only a long fly ball away from Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame. Its secret is superb organization. Named for its first chief of staff, the hospital opened its doors in 1922, only to close them three years later without raising the level of medical care in the community. In 1927, the hospital opened again, this time under a then radically new concept: group practice designed to provide full medical care for the entire community...
...enrolled at Harvard College after the war, scrambling up the academic ladder to a full professorship in 1962. He gained fame as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and as a consultant to Nelson Rockefeller...