Word: lear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Homes in the Air. President Hansberger, 47, a graduate of the University of Minnesota and Harvard Business School ('47), keeps in touch with his 21,000 employees in 80 main plants by hopping around by Lear jet and Cessna. He spends Saturday mornings with his top command at the main office in Boise's Bank of Idaho building. Heavily recruited from the Harvard and Stanford business schools, it is a compact, youthful group. "We purposely stay thin," says Charles F. McDevitt, 35, who is one of the company's six vice presidents. "You just have...
...marry off Van Dyke to his ex-wife and get a leg to stand on. In return, the two find a candidate to marry Debbie: Van Johnson, a chipmonkish used-car salesman. Up to here, the infighting and jabbing are worth watching. But in the final rounds, Writer Norman Lear and Director Bud Yorkin pull their punch lines. The result: an unconvincingly happy finale...
CHAMPLAIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Burlington, Vt. Love's Labor's Lost, King Lear, Henry IV, Part 1 will be playing in repertory until Sept...
...were the sensation of the opening week of the tenth annual Festival of Two Worlds. When the festival director, Gian Carlo Menotti, first suggested the idea, Moore was reluctant. After all, for years he had declined Sir Laurence Olivier's entreaties to design a production of King Lear for Britain's National Theater. But then Moore agreed to let Italian Designer Fiorella Mariani adapt settings from his existing works. When he saw the results, he was so pleased that he immediately set to work chipping, modeling and painting the pieces himself. "Marvelous, fascinating," he said. "I never knew...
Naturally, this is causing some pain for planemakers. Lockheed, whose ten-passenger JetStar was the first of the corporate jets, sold 20 of the $1,500,000 planes last year, is doing no better so far in 1967. More troubled is Wichita's Lear Jet, which found itself stuck with $9,000,000 worth of unsold planes, had to merge last spring with Gates Rubber to get needed working capital. The slowdown is not confined to American makers. Britain's Hawker Siddeley, which delivered 65 of its jets to U.S. corporations between 1964 and 1966, sold only seven...