Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lloyd Bucher, the Purbka...
...Died. Lloyd Stearman, 76, pioneering U.S. aircraft designer; of cancer; in Northridge, Calif. A Navy pilot during World War I, Stearman teamed up with two other air-struck Kansans, Walter Beech and Clyde Cessna, to build a generation of simple biplanes that became the Model Ts of the barnstorming 1920s. Though he founded his own aircraft firm and briefly ran Lockheed Aircraft Corp., his heart belonged to the drawing board; there he conceived such notable planes as the PT-17, the agile, open-cockpit trainer, known to thousands of World War II pilots as "the Yellow Peril," and continued...
...Best Actor can ask for a half-million dollars plus percentage of the profits in his next movie. A Best Supporting Actor jack nicholson can become Jack Nicholson. A cliche maybe, but you can feel the goddamn tension. It's like you have Scoop, Mo, Hubert, Ed and Lloyd, and one of them is going to get it on television in an envelope, instead of watching the action in the privacy of a hotel suite. Do you think any of them wouldn't lose his bowels on the spot right there? One of you is a Rhodes Scholar...
...bill with no depletion repeal in it. Leading a successful floor fight to knock out the allowance for all but the smallest independent oil producers were Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings, a South Carolina Democrat with vice-presidential ambitions, and Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy. They were sharply opposed by Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, an announced presidential candidate and friend of the oil producers. Certain that depletion was politically unsupportable in the face of soaring oil-company profits and that its repeal would eventually pass in some form. Long abandoned any prolonged fight to preserve this tax loophole. The Senate then cast preliminary...
...early 1974, Colby knew what Hersh knew and privately cautioned the Times not to pursue the story. In September 1974, Lloyd Shearer of Parade magazine learned from a crewman on the Glomar Explorer, the Howard Hughes ship, about the quest and tried to confirm it through Hughes' Summa Corp., without success. Alerted by Summa, Colby some months later reached Shearer, confirmed the basic facts and persuaded him to keep mum, arguing that recovery of the sub might yield some "ultrasecret" Soviet coding equipment...