Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boasted that they would help rebuild the nation's surface transportation system. They planned futuristic trains, air cushions and people-movers (transmission belts carrying people rather than baggage). With equal enthusiasm, they spoke of new vistas in space communications and automated mail systems. It added up to a grand adventure into uncharted terrain-a bit too grand...
Buyers Needed. Last November, Burt Raynes, the man who took Rohr into the grand adventure, stepped aside as chief executive; three months later he also quit as chairman. His successor: Fred Garry, 54, a former General Electric engineer who was brought into the company as president in 1974. Besides withdrawing from futuristic projects, Garry plans to push for more military contracts and concentrate on aircraft-related business, which still accounts for two-thirds of Rohr's sales. The company builds pods and other jet parts for all major aircraft manufacturers and has good prospects of landing orders for developmental...
Rival television journalists, however, note that ABC will not be editing its coverage of the All-Star Game as a newspaper would, and that the whole idea of a condensed, carefully packaged convention program smacks of show business. "I think the convention is one of the grand opportunities for live television," CBS Anchor Man Walter Cronkite told TIME's Sally Bedell. "We should let it unfold before our eyes and see it without the intercession of an editor's scissors." Says NBC Producer Les Crystal: "The convention should be treated as a story, not a program...
...grand old man of the Games will be Australian Bill Roycroft, 61, an equestrian appearing in his fifth Olympics. A wiry, gray-haired farmer from the sheep country of southern Australia, Roycroft is best remembered for his performance at the 1960 Rome Olympics. After having to be hoisted onto his horse by teammates because he had broken or dislocated his arm, shoulder and collarbone in a fall during an earlier, cross-country event, Roycroft clinched the gold medal for his team with a faultless show of jumping...
...past two decades, and not all that frequent during Porgy's 41 years of life. Now there is a new version that is really worth seeing and hearing. Surprisingly, at least to those unattuned to the activities of General Director David Gockley, it comes from the Houston Grand Opera, where the show last week completed an eight-day run. With former American Ballet Theater President Sherwin Goldman joining in as coproducer, Porgy this week begins a six-week engagement at Philadelphia's Academy of Music, and after that it will move to the Wolf Trap center outside Washington...