Word: horner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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United Aircraft Corp., whose East Hartford, Conn., executive suite has been as stable as Fairchild's has been shaky, announced the Oct. 1 retirement at 65 of Chairman Horace Mansfield Horner, only the second boss that the huge aerospace company has had since it was founded 34 years ago. "Jack" Horner is the son of an early backer of Pratt & Whitney, United's creator. An engineer (Yale '26), he joined the engine maker right after graduation, when it had 80 employees and heady plans to build an aircraft engine called the Wasp. A high-performance engine...
...have challenges of their own. United's production schedules have been disrupted by Viet Nam priorities, and the company must simultaneously continue development (at a cost of some $80 million so far) of its JT9D jet engine for the next generation of airliners. Then, of course, there are Horner's records to be beaten, such as United's peak first-half earnings, announced last week, of $32.5 million on sales of $1.3 billion. That is about triple what the company was earning in an entire year as recently...
Thereafter, the reader may find the rest of Mots d'H cures compulsive, as one horrendous bilingual audio-pun follows another. L'lle deja accornee . . . Satinees cornees translates as "The [lord of the] island already has horns! Satiny corneas . . ." but it is really Little Jack Horner who sat in a corner...
...search for life's meaning also runs through End of the Road. "In a sense, I am Jacob Horner," the book's narrator begins, with typical uncertainty. Then he conducts a tour along the "weatherless" days of his life. Hornet suffers low-pressure areas during which he ceases to function. Hypnotized by the multitude of life's choices, he can make no choice at all. The novel is partly autobiographical. It is laid in Maryland, where Earth grew up; Horner teaches English at Wicomico State Teachers College, while Earth teaches English at the Buffalo campus...
...Cincinnati's other daily, the Enquirer, was giving them only perfunctory treatment. Though both papers are owned by Scripps-Howard, they operate independently. "We decided it would not be fair to pick out individuals in a few selected cases," explained Enquirer Publisher Francis Dale. He had reason. Reporter Horner had discovered that Enquirer Court Reporter Tom Mercer and Columnist Frank Weikel had both served recently as appraisers...