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...Nattily turned out in a grey civilian suit complete with vest, former NATO Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad, 55, showed up in Manhattan to take on a new post: president of the international division of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Explained Norstad, who turned over command of NATO to Army General Lyman Lemnitzer this month: "I did not want to stay on the fringes of the military. You need the stimulation of a fresh challenge." Fresh challenges are sure to come at Owens-Corning (1961 earnings: $14,300,000 on sales of $226,900,000), which is eager to expand its overseas...
According to Lt. Col. Edward M. Lyman, professor of Air Science, it is possible that the new program would start next year if it passes early in the upcoming session of Congress...
...Show." Medikaiser is based on two fundamental principles enunciated back in 1932 by Physician Ray Lyman Wilbur, who was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior. Doctors practice best in groups, Dr. Wilbur argued, because they can instantly call on each other's special skills. Patients, he was convinced, make the best use of doctors' services when they pay for them in advance. But organized medicine bitterly opposed prepaid group practice for years, and much of the antagonism remains...
...time he was 14, Lyman was good enough to play with a combo in a Honolulu jazz cellar; from there he graduated to the Martin Denny Trio, which plays music something like Lyman's but with more of a jazz feeling. About that time, he married a divorcee from Sacramento, Calif., who still serves as his group's business manager...
...Like a Bird. It was while he was with Denny that Lyman discovered the value of bird calls. One night, he recalls, he had "a little to drink," and when the trio began playing the theme from the movie Vera Cruz, he tried a few experimental squawks. "The next thing you know," says he, "the audience started to answer me back with all kinds of weird cries. It was great...