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...founder-president and board chairman of Zenith Radio Corp., globe-trotting adventurer who persuaded the Navy to use short wave radio by going to the Arctic in 1925 and working a ship 12,000 miles away in New Zealand waters, also flew his own glider, raced outboards, mined gold in Mexico, lived on a yacht on the Chicago River, managed to build his company's sales to over $160 million in 1957; of cancer; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...company through the postwar readjustment. Operating out of a trophy-filled office resembling the living room of a big-game hunter, which he is, Dick Boutelle's first move was to stalk any idea that promised a profit. He toyed with a lightweight train, a gasoline-filled glider as an aerial tanker, even a mechanically operated wild-turkey caller. "We'd even make corsets if we saw a profit," said Boutelle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Flight of the Friendship | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...schoolchildren to call him chacha (uncle), the same term of endearment they have been taught to call Nehru. Less interested in making loaded impressions, King Zahir, on a 15-day state visit, rushed busily between polo and field-hockey matches, a horse show, small-game shooting, a glider flight. A slated highlight of Zahir's trip: a tiger hunt, for which his striped target, previously located and fattened on goats and buffalo meat, unwarily awaited the King's bullet. Alighting at Palam Airport, Cabot Lodge was greeted as a long-lost friend by his oldtime U.N. wrangling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...transmit televised images to earth. This would be followed by a series of satellites that, by early 1960, would keep a 24-hour watch on every part of the earth's surface. By late 1960-provided the Government adopts the plan soon-Atlas would push a manned hypersonic glider (five times the speed of sound) into orbit, finally lift freight ships into space to provide living quarters for a new generation of space residents. Not content with this plan, General Dynamics' scientists also have their eyes, minds and scientific talents fixed firmly on developing spaceships (called "Probes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Builder of the Atlas | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...chose Nick Craig, a Pan American sales executive, as board chairman, president and chief executive. "I did everything but fly the planes," says Craig. Flying the planes, as stipulated by the country's lawmakers, is a job performed entirely by Icelanders, many of. whom started as glider pilots. The line's 32 stewardesses have the island's most sought-after female jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sparrow in the Treetop | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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