Word: homering
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...faithfully reproduces the text of a Spanish newspaper reporting the Christine Keeler affair. There is more to it than just that swears Dali. If flies are permitted to swarm on it, he says, they will take such positions that their defecation will reveal the presently invisible heads of Socrates, Homer and Lorenzo de Medici in between the lines...
...York, Homer Jack, executive director of SANE, said that no announcement of new SANE co-chairmen would be made until after the peace organization's executive board meets Nov. 25. The executive board has to pass on new co-chairmen...
...Homeric Feat. Born in Belmont, Mass., and educated at Brown ('17), Homer once worked as a 13?-an-hour lathe operator during summer vacation. It was as a World War I Navy lieutenant and pioneer submariner that he caught the eye of Bethlehem management at the company's shipyard in Quincy, Mass. After the war, he moved up at flank speed in Bethlehem Ship, became vice president in charge of it in 1940. During World War II, his 200,000-man force turned out 1,127 ships, from landing craft to aircraft carriers, a Homeric feat unequaled...
...Homer succeeded Grace to the top jobs-first as president in 1945, then as chief executive in 1957. Precise and analytical, he surprised many in the industry by proving to be a forceful chief. Sensing that shipbuilding was on the wane, the old sailor cut back Bethlehem's stake in ships, and late last year initiated a threeyear, $750 million improvement program concentrating in other areas. Rising behind the Indiana dunes near Chicago is a $275 million finishing plant that will give Bethlehem, which has long been the strongest supplier in the East, a major hold in the Midwest...
...from the Loop. Most likely to succeed Homer is powerfully built (6 ft 3 in.) Edmund F. Martin, 60, who became president three years ago, then advanced to vice chairman last August as Stewart S. Cort, 52, replaced him. Martin, who now earns $255,663 a year, joined Bethlehem in 1922 as a "looper," or management trainee, worked up from repairman's helper to chief of steelmaking operations...