Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VIDEOLOGICAL. The man who has exercised the greatest influence on modern football is neither Vince Lombardi nor Don Shula. His name is Lee DeForrest, the inventor of the vacuum tube that, in turn, spawned television...
...Post family fortunes (last estimated as high as $250 million) began with Charles William Post, a farm-machinery salesman and inventor whose Welsh ancestors had come to America in 1633. In the 1890s, Post moved with his wife and only child to Battle Creek, Mich., in hopes of improving his health. When the change failed to help, Post came up with a cure of his own. After concocting a combination of wheat, molasses and bran as a healthful coffee substitute, Postpatented his recipe, dubbed the mixture Postum, and launched one of the first advertising campaigns for a prepared food...
...public money has been spent on security and other official arrangements for the two estates. Last week the White House is sued a privately produced report on the complex transactions by which the houses were financed. It showed a President heavily dependent on two millionaires-Robert H. Abplanalp, the inventor of the aerosol-spray valve, and Miami Entrepreneur Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo. While buttressing White House assertions that nothing illegal had occurred, the statement raised anew the propriety of Nixon's large (and secret) indebtedness to his friends...
...military would be difficult to make. The wounded and homeless of Indochina could best testify to the "humanizing" influence of Harvard men such as Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, James Schlesinger '50, Henry Kissinger '50, Elliot Richardson '41, and Louis F. Fieser, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, Emeritus, and the inventor of napalm...
...sober efficiency typifies the proprietors of Mickey Mouse, it also marks the inventor of the Bunny, Chicago Correspondent Richard Woodbury reports. "I was surprised to find Hefner such a serious, business-minded person," he says. "We met in a second-floor conference room of the famous Playboy Mansion and talked for nearly two hours, and there were no girls or hedonists around...