Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the eyepiece of the telescope that towered through the observatory roof and spied on the moon. His voice echoed in the empty chamber. "Now, I note about twelve impact craters, and the largest of these I shall mark on the map with an A." said Dutch-born Dr. Gerard Kuiper head of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory. By such sharply focused glimpses of scientists at work, Conquest (CBS) started to live up to its promise as a $1,000,000 series of ten science programs that will stretch into next season. After a talky start...
...Died. Gerard Swope, 84, white-haired, sparky longtime president of General Electric Co.. whose charge to the top began in 1893 as a dollar-a-day student helper ("a dirty, oily job") in the Chicago plant; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. An M.I.T. electrical-engineering graduate, Swope took the G.E. helm in 1922, consolidated its holdings over the next 17 years, diversified the company, built it into a $300 million corporation. Together with his radical board chairman, Owen D. Young, he was responsible for some of the most far-reaching labor policies in American industry, put into operation (after...
Married. G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 30, onetime Army MP and sometime McCarthy sleuth, Schine hotel and movie chain scion; and Sweden's voluptuous Hillevi Rombin, 24, Miss Universe of 1955; in Manhattan...
Nevertheless, to try to make up its losses, BOAC invoked contract penalties against Bristol. BOAC already has lost "well over" $5,600,000 because of the 312 delay, snapped Smallpeice. "It will not be surprising if we come out with a deficit this year." BOAC Chairman Gerard d'Erlanger took his own swipe at Bristol when asked if the line expects prompt delivery on its order for 15 Boeing 707 jetliners. Growled he: "American manufacturers do have a habit of being on time...
Though hardly an impartial critic, since Temoignage (circ. 66,593) has frequently been in hot water for criticizing Algerian policy, Editor Vial documented such reprisals as the imprisonment of Resistance Heroine Claude Gerard on charges of "endangering external security" with a series of stories from Algeria that appeared in Demain (TIME, June 11, 1956), the weekly organ of Mollet's own Socialist Party...