Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andy, of course, is a goof artist. He is a menace on the rifle range, gets his outfit gigged for dirty barracks, spends a weekend emergency pass for home with one of the blonde natural beauties of Southern California. Then, one day, he kicks a live grenade into a sump and saves a buddy's life. He becomes an overnight hero and, more slowly, a soldier...
This season, however, the quality of the opposition the Crimson must overcome is unprecedented in its excellence. Cornell, which won the Eastern Sprints at Washington, is a strong, smooth outfit. Second to Cornell in the Sprints was Yale, a contingent which Love describes as an "extraordinary good crew." In addition to these two eights Harvard would race Washington and California, both first-rate western crews...
Next day EOKA, the right-wing underground terrorist outfit, issued its own communique. The EOKA announcement: it had hanged two British soldiers-Corporals Gordon Hill and Ronnie Shilton-in reprisal. The word was spread in leaflets scattered through Nicosia. EOKA warned: "We shall answer hanging with hanging and torture with torture." British troops caught one 19-year-old handing out the leaflets, shot him dead as he tried...
...outfit will concentrate at first on guided missiles but will undertake almost anything dealing with technological research and development, including "serious exploration of outer space." Ford is putting an initial $10 million into the venture, plans to build a $13,500,000 research and development facility, probably in the Los Angeles area, to be completed in 1958 and employ 1,000 to 2,000. Absorption of Systems Research, composed mainly of scientists who quit the Lockheed missiles program in a policy squabble, gives Ford a readymade, topflight scientific team plus a batch of government contracts...
...inside the executive suite raged a struggle for control: Piasecki men v. Rockefeller men. In March 1955 Frank Piasecki lost even the board chairmanship to President Berlin. Four months later, almost completely shorn of power and with nothing left but a directorship, he walked out to form his own outfit, the Piasecki Aircraft Corp. The Berlin-operated helicopter company quickly slammed the door. In two successive special stockholders' meetings it changed the name of Piasecki Helicopter to Vertol (vertical take-off and landing) Aircraft Corp. and amended the bylaws to bar Piasecki's re-election as a director...