Word: kappel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close since last spring. Consumers are crowding into department stores and auto showrooms, in April sent retail sales to new highs. And the 3,700 stockholders who trooped into a Bronx armory for the annual meeting of A. T. & T. seemed to share the optimism of Chairman Frederick R. Kappel, who made happy talk about a general improvement in business confidence. Businessmen were heartened by President Kennedy's mild reaction to the steel price hikes, and even more buoyed by the record level of corporate profits...
Loud & Clear. Yet perhaps never before had a historic event been introduced with such a peculiar potpourri of show business, mundane shop talk and excited chatter. A.T. & T. Chairman Frederick Kappel bounced his voice off the satellite to send greetings by phone to Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who eagerly took the call in Washington. The first picture to be beamed from the earth station in Maine was a TV camera's view of the American flag waving near the ground tracking facilities, while a sound track carried The Star-Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful. Scientists had expected Telstar...
From the Sky. Although it was only 15 hours in orbit before it relayed a phone call between A. T. & T. Board Chairman Frederick R. Kappel in Maine and Vice President Lyndon Johnson in Washington, and although it has already bounced TV programs between the U.S. and Europe, Telstar is only an experimental communications satellite. A large part of its equipment is devoted to studying radiation, micrometeorites, and other potentially troublesome features of space. It was placed deliberately on an elliptical orbit (apogee 3,502 miles, perigee 593 miles) so that it could report from many different altitudes...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Building on Manhattan's lower Broadway, Eugene Johnson McNeely, 60, was greeted by a fresh sign on the door, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT. For the third time in his 39-year telephone career, McNeely succeeds to a job previously held by Frederick R. Kappel, 59, who moves up to the company's long-unoccupied chairmanship and remains chief executive. McNeely, who joined the Bell System straight out of the University of Missouri Engineering School ('22), will supervise engineering operations, marketing and personnel. An energetic perfectionist, he keeps a golden telephone atop his desk, still...
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Frederick R. Kappel, president. American Telephone & Telegraph . . . . . . . . . Eng.D...