Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With STAR, controllers should rest easy. Built by a Lithuanian-born J.P.L. engineer named Algirdas Avižienis, 38, the computer consists of ten separate units, each designed to perform a specific function (computation, logic, communications, memory and monitoring). More important, some of the units always stand by as spares. Thus, if any of STAR'S working parts should falter, it can quickly mobilize a replacement...
...announcement that the four would be released, however, the Turkish government agreed to hand over the pilot and one passenger of a small Russian plane that had been hijacked late last month. Even so, the two students who took over the plane remained in Turkish custody, as did the Lithuanian father and son who forced the crew of an Aeroflot plane to land in Turkey in October and who killed a stewardess in the process...
Crown wanted General Dynamics partly out of pride and tenacity and partly as a matter of long loyalty to associates. The son of a Lithuanian immigrant, he started Chicago's Material Service Corp. in 1919 on a borrowed $10,000. By the time he sold the firm to General Dynamics in 1959-and became a key figure on the board-he had built M.S.C. into one of the world's largest sand and gravel companies. After Crown quit General Dynamics in 1966, many of Material Service's top executives departed in frustration at the way the company...
Richard W. Paul, 43, is a white-collar worker at a General Electric plant in Pittsfield, Mass. One of six children of a Lithuanian immigrant, he grew up in Worcester. He fought as a Marine in World War II in the Pacific and can still do 400 sit-itps. He lives with his father-in-law, his wife, who also works at G.E., and his eleven-year-old daughter. His concern with such issues as welfare and dissent impelled him to seek, and win, a seat on the Pittsfield city council...