Word: remington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born on a drought-stricken Minnesota farm, Mickelson quit high school in 1943, joined the merchant marine-and was sent into radio training. That led to a succession of postwar jobs as radio-station engineer, broadcaster, electronics technician. In 1953 he joined Remington Rand and was put to work designing memory cores for Univac. Computers were in their infancy, and a skilled designer could quickly make a mark in the field...
...computer parts, offered to supply the raw materials. Mickelson figured that the demand for memory cores would be so great that even a small firm could cash in on it. He set up Fabri-Tek in his basement, working nights and weekends while he held his daytime job at Remington Rand. His total investment in the new company was for "some wire, solder, tweezers, and a little pair of nippers-altogether...
...Americans 8. German-owned Triumph employs 800 people at a corset and girdle factory in Strasbourg; other German companies are busy making shoes, office equipment, and engineering and precision instruments. America's Timken Roller-Bearing has built the largest foreign-owned plant (1,000 employees) at Colmar; Remington Rand employs 311 persons to produce electric shavers at Huttenheim; Minoc, a subsidiary of Rohm & Haas, makes ion exchangers at Lauterbourg. Wrigley will enter Alsace next year, turn out three brands of chewing gum at a new $4 million plant near Colmar. Near the Swiss border, Swiss-owned companies have...
...accused the public of admiring "every dab of paint that comes out of dressmaking Paris." He called critics "dolts, asses, dullards who rave about impressionism and realism without knowing what Prussian blue is." And dealers were plain "racketeers." Hassam was so single-mindedly American that Fellow Painter Frederic Remington dubbed him "Muley...
Married. Gamble Benedict, 24, Remington typewriter heiress, whose endlessly publicized 1960 runaway marriage to onetime Chauffeur Andrei Porumbeanu was annulled last October; and Thomas Gallagher, 32, former New York Thruway motorcycle cop, now an $11,500-a-year State Police investigator; both for the second time; in a Roman Catholic ceremony (the church does not recognize either of their first marriages); in Clinton...