Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston-born product of Boston College High School, where Jesuits douse the lads in Greek and Latin, McDonough at first aimed for M.I.T. and physical chemistry. Instead, the classics lured him to Boston College, where he was hooked on Greek poetry by the Rev. Carl J. Thayer, S.J., an inspired teacher whose students habitually sweep national Greek sight-reading contests. On top of that, McDonough worked one summer in a Boston insurance company office, where he discovered the talents of computers...
...than 20 times since 1955. It is now a $50 million-a-year business. Of poor quality in the past, imitation lilacs, rhododendrons, geraniums, magnolias and orchids now look real enough to water-though lilies sometimes come with geranium leaves. Explains one Hong Kong exporter: "Sometimes God's product doesn't look natural enough, so we make hybrids." Some also come with built-in smell...
Still Developing. General Dynamics, which was late getting into jets, has been hit with one of the highest product development costs in history. To develop its Convair 880, 880M and the long-range 990 (which is not yet certified by the Government), the company has spent $350 million. Of this, $116 million occurred unexpectedly this year, partly because of a wing-flutter problem in the 990. So far. General Dynamics has sold 114 jets and delivered 38. many of which, through controversial maneuvers (see below), have turned up in TWA's fleet. General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace Jr. gloomily...
Last week, stepping in to umpire Mantle's off-diamond performance, the Federal Trade Commission coldly advised the Yankee slugger to stop endorsing one product he admittedly does not consume: the milk marketed by Mid-West Creamery Co., Inc. of Ponca City, Okla.-which got the rights to Mantle's name from a dairy association that has him under contract. Well aware of the dangers of arguing with the ump, Oklahoma-born Mantle promptly agreed...
Died. Alexander Hilsberg, 61, Warsaw-born product of the St. Petersburg violin-prodigy assembly line (others: Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein) who served 20 years as concertmaster of the "ideal orchestra" of his youth, the Philadelphia, before taking over the New Orleans Symphony in 1952; of heart and kidney disease; in Camden...