Word: linens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S own contingent included Editorial Chairman Henry R. Luce, Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell, President James Linen, Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, Managing Editor Otto Fuerbringer, Senior Editor (of Business) Champ Clark, and the publisher. Most of the invited travelers were principal officers of major business organizations. Together they employ more than 1,200,000 people, and their companies had 1965 sales totaling $33 billion. The group included...
...busload from points as distant as the Persian Gulf. Her two concerts in the 4,000-seat tent theater amid the Roman ruins were sold out months in advance, and scalpers got up to $250 for tickets. While she conducted the 20-piece orchestra with flicks of a long linen hanky, her smoky voice quavered like a struck gong, snaked nasally through soaring loop-the-loops, dipped to guttural growls, sobs and moans. Her subtle phrasing and delicate changes of pitch evoked revival-like cries from the whistling, shouting, foot-stamping audience: "Ya qalbi [Oh, my heart!]" and "Ya habibi...
There, Boeing first built a 3,200-lb., 125-h.p., 78-m.p.h. wood and linen seaplane. In the years thereafter, Boeing made a land-based biplane that was the U.S.'s first efficient airmail carrier; it helped him to win the profitable San Francisco-Chicago route. Boeing's Monomail 200 in 1930 was the first plane with retractable landing gear; his 1933 ten-passenger Boeing 247 was the U.S.'s first twin-engined commercial transport plane, and the Boeing Stratoliner in 1938 was the first transport with a pressurized cabin...
...campaign. Some Byrd advisers suggested bluntly that Robertson, who was never an important figure in the combine, should follow Old Harry into voluntary retirement. Instead, Banking and Currency Chairman Robertson years' campaigned on the strength of his 20 years' seniority in the Senate. Wearing the traditional white linen suit favored by Old Harry, he stumped the state making florid (and familiar) speeches denouncing the evils of big government...
Died. Robert Fowler, 80, daredevil early birdman who in 1911, after only three hours of instruction, became the first to fly across the U.S. from West to East, sputtering from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, Fla., in a bamboo-and-linen Wright Brothers biplane, an odyssey that took 45 flying days and 112 days overall because of the time spent repairing his machine after literally dozens of crashes; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Jose, Calif...