Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Projects Agency, by appointing General Electric Vice President Roy W. Johnson, 52, to run it (see Defense). Presidential Science Adviser James R. Killian Jr. undertook a classification of ways, means and reasons for space exploration. The armed services and all space dreamers seized the moment to plug for their pet projects (see cut). And the Congress correlated space with politics; Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's carefully drawn resolution establishing an Astronautical and Space Exploration Committee pained Republicans who recognized good politics when they...
...days after his suicide, the New York Central's Board Chairman Robert R. Young won a belated victory last week. After a bitter, 2½-year battle between Young and Randolph Phillips, a former associate, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for one of Young's pet projects: a plan to wipe out $18 million in dividend arrears to preferred stockholders of Young's Alleghany Corp., which has working control of the Central with 973,500 shares of stock. Under the plan, each share of Alleghany's 5½% preferred stock would be exchanged...
...stock fell. His Alleghany Corp. had paper losses of more than $16 million on stock it had bought in the New York Central. To make matters worse, Bob Young was being challenged in the courts by a former associate named Randolph Phillips, who blocked some of Young's pet plans for Alleghany Corp. (TIME, May 6). So insistent and shrewd was Phillips' opposition that Young ranted and raved about him in private, hardly dared come to New York publicly for fear of being served with another Phillips summons...
...wryer-a screenwriter on leave from his wife. The prose still has an unwashed smell, but it has been sponged off here and there with the English lavender of Henry James. The details are still gutsy. In the earlier book, a lonesome U.S. soldier tries to make a pet of an owl, thoughtfully breaks its legs so that it will not escape; in the Hollywood retelling, the girl screams and vomits uncontrollably at the inevitable Mexican bullfight...
Teacher's Pet. In Depew, N.Y., Teacher James McGuire, 37, was suspended by the board, of education for insubordination after he submitted a schedule of his classes and wrote at the bottom: "Total hours per week-average 60; overtime pay-none; time off for overtime work -none; salary-poor; gratitude- none; feelings-disgusted...