Word: jay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American girls dressed in flowing silver-grey silk and toting violins, violas, cellos and a string bass; their conductor, Boris Sirpo, and a few assistants. In sum total they were the Little Chamber Orchestra from Portland, Ore., and their destination was the National French Television studio in Rue Cognacq-Jay...
...president and chairman of General Dynamics Corp., 61-year-old John Jay Hopkins wears many hats, and a feather in almost every one. When he took over eight years ago, the company-then known as Electric Boat-was coasting along with an annual sales volume of $26.9 million, mostly in submarines. Since then, he has picked up aircraftmakers Canadair Ltd. in Canada and giant Consolidated Vultee, changed the company name, expanded into guided missiles, atomic research and atomic submarines (the U.S.S. Nautilus), and boosted volume 25-fold (to $649 million last year). Last week Jay Hopkins put another feather...
...pard he says, "Did yew heah whut thet maan said? INSAHD the haouse!" As they ride out to the ranch. Cowboy Douglas keeps shaking his head, he's that amazed. As soon as they get there, he wants to know, "Whin we gonna see it?" "After lunch," growls Jay C. Flippen, the foreman. After lunch, Douglas busts right out, "Kin we see it naow?" "Yup," says the foreman. The two men brace themselves, walk shoulder to shoulder to the front door of the main ranch house, open it, walk through the bedroom, open the door beyond. Timidly Cowboy Douglas...
...academic or social misdemeanor. But when it is unexpectedly employed to prevent something that hundreds of local homeowners do in front of their houses every night--an act that the University has, in practice, permitted for years--probation is degraded to a position slightly higher than a reprimand for jay-walking...
Rapperport returned in the 200-yard backstroke and fought to a near upset over O'Brien. Though he beat Jay Harbeck, he was touched...