Word: rca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon-eyed whiz kid from RCA, there seemed no insurmountable challenge in straw-bossing the U.S.'s $20 billion man-in-space program. "I think I'm up to it," said Brainerd Holmes, 42, when he took over as Director of Manned Space Flight for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1961. NASA Boss James Webb heartily concurred and said: "He has every quality it takes to get the job done." And so it seemed. Under Holmes's guidance, the U.S. launched five successful manned flights, developed detailed plans for a race to the moon...
Dello Joio: Fantasy and Variations (Lorin Hollander, pianist; Boston Symphony Orchestra; RCA Victor) is here given an appropriately spirited performance by the young pianist who played its world première last year. It is music for a virtuoso pianist and a game orchestra. So is the cheerful Ravel Concerto in G on the other side...
Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Jascha Heifetz; RCA Victor) is a five-LP package that includes all ten of Beethoven's sonatas, masterfully played by Violinist Heifetz and Pianists Emanuel Bay and Brooks Smith. What with a fat book of program notes, it is big enough to be a doorstop; what with Heifetz playing as he does, it is almost a way of life...
...last year's high rate. Steelmakers, now pouring at 82% capacity, look for shipments in May to be the highest in three years; they expect June to be at least as strong, even though steel users have now conservatively bought up enough to hedge against an unlikely strike. RCA felt so roseate that it broadcast its annual meeting over closed-circuit color television in Rockefeller Center, and announced that profits are at records and that sales of color TV sets are 40% above last year. From Standard Brands to Xerox, dozens of major companies reported record first-quarter earnings...
...frog could catch insects with RCA's crude and ponderous eye, but the Air Force has high hopes of developing it into a practical instrument that can view a scene and make instant, frog-quick decisions. Unblinkingly focused on a radar scope, it might report only those aircraft or missiles that are potentially hostile. In an even more refined version, it could ride in a missile and steer its warhead toward targets that it had been trained to seek...