Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointed work. Accurate guidance was needed to match Syncom's orbit to the earth's rotation; it was moving a little too fast, drifting ahead of the earth by about 7.5 degrees of longitude per day. Out on the Navy control ship Kingsport in Lagos harbor, Nigeria, engineers sent radio signals that fired jets of hydrogen peroxide to slow Syncom down. Obediently the satellite changed the direction of its drift, began to move toward its proper position above Brazil...
...house party at Seal Harbor, Me., was a quiet family affair-the four Murphy children, Happy and Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who was celebrating his 55th birthday. After ice cream and a large birthday cake (with only one candle), Happy gave her husband a blue sailing shirt and two cashmere sweaters, and the kids gave their new stepfather birthday cards. Then for six days the New York Governor relaxed in the privacy of his vacation retreat and indulged an irresistible yen for Maine lobster-at almost every meal except breakfast...
Conversion at 8. Balliol began as a penance imposed on John of Balliol, a Scottish baron who kidnaped a bishop in a dispute over land, and to make amends endowed a hostel for 16 indigent scholars at Oxford. The resulting college went on to harbor such notables as John Wycliffe and Adam Smith, but its star did not really rise until the advent of Benjamin Jowett, the great classicist who took over as master in 1870, molding men and minds for 23 years...
After a decade of struggle for survival in the turbulent appliance market, Chairman Elisha ("Bud") Gray II, 56, of Whirlpool Corp., could sit back in his office at Benton Harbor, Mich., and comfortably feel the battle won. Sales -more than two-thirds from making Kenmore "white goods" for Sears (which owns 19% of Whirlpool)-hit a record $465 million last year. Earnings were rising smartly. Appliance Buyers Credit Corp., Whirlpool's 80%-owned subsidiary to finance retail sales of its appliances, turned a profit for the first time in 1962. It earned...
...then kept refinancing them, in the firm's eagerness to expand business. The risks did not show on the audited statement, and Finch unfortunately will never be able to explain. On May 7, his private plane ran into engine trouble and crashed on an approach to the Benton Harbor airport, killing Finch and his immediate family...