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Klunick, the Springfield, Ill. native, is the most talked about recruit on the team, and for good reason. He graduated from Lanphier High School, which has produced two tremendous talents in the past few years. Andre Iguodala—who graduated from Lanphier three years ago and played his college ball at Arizona—was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers this year, and Klunick’s old classmate, Richard McBride, now plays for Illinois...
...right, World War II U.S. fighter pilot given partial credit for shooting down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the strategist of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in a famed 1943 ambush; in Terrebonne, Oregon. For 28 years the Air Force gave sole credit to pilot Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., above left, but in 1973 Barber was officially recognized. DIED. EDWARD GIEREK, 88, reform-minded communist leader of Poland from 1970-1980 whose attempts to liberalize the economy plunged the country into debt and ignited the discontent that led to the creation of the Solidarity movement; in Cieszyn, Poland...
...Manhattan executive suites of Fairbanks Whitney Corp., the widely diversified and often troubled manufacturer of heavy machinery. Last spring Executive Committee Chairman Alfons Landa and two vice presidents quit amid reports of angry board room battles for control of the company. Last week they were joined by Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., 46, who resigned as president of the company's largest division, Fairbanks, Morse. Lanphier−the World War II ace who gunned down Japan's Pacific Commander, Admiral Yamamoto, and later rose to become vice president of General Dynamics' VConvair Division before joining Fairbanks...
...Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., 45, onetime vice president of General Dynamics' Convair Division, was named president of Fairbanks, Morse & Co., a subsidiary of the Fairbanks Whitney Corp. A World War II fighter pilot (his bag: 15 Japanese aircraft, including one bearing Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto), Lanphier joined Convair in 1954, became key man in long-range planning for Convair's Atlas missile program. But his blunt criticism of the Administration's defense effort and sharp attacks on rival missilemakers provoked General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace to ease him out. On his own, Lanphier stumped the country, pleading...
...Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., 44, onetime vice president of General Dynamics' Convair Division, was appointed vice president in charge of planning of the Fairbanks Whitney Corp., a big (1959 sales: $149 million), diversified manufacturing outfit. Lanphier's outspoken criticisms of the Administration's defense effort and blunt attacks on rival missile makers brought down the wrath of General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace, who forced Lanphier out. Lanphier then campaigned for his longtime friend, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, whose special assistant he had been when Symington was Secretary of the Air Force. When Symington lost...