Word: makers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chairman Horace Mansfield Horner, only the second boss that the huge aerospace company has had since it was founded 34 years ago. "Jack" Horner is the son of an early backer of Pratt & Whitney, United's creator. An engineer (Yale '26), he joined the engine maker right after graduation, when it had 80 employees and heady plans to build an aircraft engine called the Wasp. A high-performance engine for those days, the 425-h.p. Wasp was an immediate success and helped finance the founding of United. United at one time or another pulled under its wing Bill...
...libretto by Playwright-Film Maker Richard Foreman bristled with the same anarchic spirit. Against a background of film strips and flashing lights, it unfolded a plotless jumble of scenes that might have resulted from a collaboration by Brecht, Beckett and Buster Keaton. "Nobody looks at me," sang one character in a typically enigmatic line, "therefore I retrace my steps." In another episode, a scruffy charwoman incongruously trilled out an aria while brandishing a three-foot wooden spoon at the other characters...
Truth and beauty. That's what Author-turned-Film Maker Norman Mailer says he's after, and despite the critical catcalls over his first movie, he's still in there cranking away. The latest is a flick about a paranoid film director, played by old Norm of course, with a sharp little subplot about a bunch of male prostitutes. How's that for a takeoff on Belle de Jour? Beautiful. So there they were, Mailer and about 100 of his pals, out on Long Island shooting some scenes and pow!-Norm got into a fight with...
...would be opposed if, for instance, the merger would prevent two noncompeting partners from entering each other's fields on their own. Thus, this month a federal District Court upheld a key Justice challenge to a merger of Wilson Sporting Goods, a subsidiary of LTV, with a small maker of gymnastic equipment. The grounds: Wilson might well have entered the gymnastic field...
Died. Edgar Monsanto Queeny, 70, president (1928-43) and board chairman (1943-60) of Monsanto Co., the nation's third biggest chemical maker after Du Pont and Union Carbide; of coronary thrombosis; in Ladue, Mo. Through judicious acquisitions and canny expansion into new products, Queeny raised Monsanto to the widely diversified giant that today chalks up annual sales of more than $1.6 billion...