Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington. Lazard's newcomers have additional qualifications. Smith, 69, was a commercial aviation pioneer and chairman of American Airlines until his Cabinet appointment last March. He will be particularly valuable to Lazard in working with U.S. airlines. They will require huge amounts of capital to finance their forthcoming jumbo jets and supersonic transports and will spend about $9 billion on new equipment in the next two years alone. Deming, 56, who oversaw international monetary affairs at the Treasury, will probably help on foreign loans and the other international deals, which are a large part of Lazard's business...
Perennial track power Villanova is favored to successfully defend its IC4A crown. The Jumbos have lost key runners through graduation and the Olympics, but they have competent backup strength in Tom Donnelly, Chris Mason, and Dick Buerkle. Add a tradition of victory and coach Jumbo Elliott's ability to pull out the big ones, and Villanova has to be listed as the team to beat today...
Eliot's John Read scored a touchdown and the Jumbo defense thwarted two drives at their own five-yard line, as the league leaders edged Quincy, 6-0, Monday. Winless Quincy controlled the ball most of the game, but, tiring late in the contest because it had no substitutes, allowed Eliot to score...
Even as it was talked about in Cannes, Hammarskjold's "new era of real mass air transportation" was taking physical form 7,000 miles away in Everett, Wash. Towed out of a huge Boeing Co. plant came the first aircraft of the new era: the 747 "jumbo jet." After considerable ceremony, the gigantic plane was turned over to technicians to be prepared for its first test flight. Although that flight is not scheduled until December, the 747 is very impressive even on the ground, and its potential is immense. The plane is 231 ft. long, will have a fully...
...looking, he said, for defensive substitutes "who won't hurt us". Of greater concern at the moment is the questionable starting status of fullback Bob Gray, who injured a hamstring against Tufts. Then, too, junior goalie Rich Locksley reinjured his thumb in a second half collision with a Jumbo forward and may not play...