Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smith-Corona's turn-around year of 1956 got under way when the University of Pittsburgh's Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield joined the board, and Smith-Corona acquired the Kleinschmidt Laboratories, a small, hustling outfit specializing in communications systems and related research. Bud Mead, who was executive vice president of Kleinschmidt, became vice president for operations for Smith-Corona and began to shake up the company. He mechanized assembly lines, closed antiquated production facilities, and built a new $2,000,000 factory in South Cortland, N.Y. Mead estimates that the company's typewriter-production capacity...
...raise opium and Husky-like white dogs. (Standing advice to U.S. pilots: "If you're shot down, find yourself a Meo and hang onto him for dear life. Those little guys will save your hide.") Last week U.S. guerrilla warfare experts, members of a new outfit called the Liaison Training and Advisory Group (LTAG), helicoptered into mountain valleys behind the enemy lines, where Meo tribesmen gathered as many as 400 strong to greet their new weapons and instructors. The Meo's Colonel Vang Phao now runs a mortar and rifle range in the mountains with U.S. help...
Though he keeps an office in Boston, most of the operations of Drew's eleven-man outfit are carried out in the basement of his stucco, five-bedroom house in Newton Center, Mass. "What's the point of being in Wall Street?" he asks. "Out here you're aloof from the scuttlebutt, the emotions and social entanglements of life in a financial district." Drew spends most of his time in sports clothes, frequently needs a haircut...
...Kennedy went out with the Orange County Hunt last Saturday, "beautifully turned out," according to a member of the hunt, in formal hunting clothes: canary breeches, dark Melton coat, derby and black hunting boots. This is the approved outfit for fox hunting. She stayed out for an hour or so. Hounds met at Meetze's Scale, near ex-Ambassador George Garrett's Chilly Bleake farm. Again she joined the field after hounds had moved off. Having a fox-hunting First Lady is definitely more stimulating to the housewife than having one who bowls or knits. When...
Nkrumah's goal is to unite crumbling colonial Africa in a vast, new black empire under Ghana's banner. To spread the gospel, he employs the slickest public relations outfit in Africa, Accra's Bureau of African Affairs. The bureau was set up in 1957, when Africa was still largely in white men's shackles. But its efforts today seem aimed as much at upsetting black regimes that do not cooperate with Nkrumah as at white colonialism...