Word: richard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine, enthusiastic form at a Blair House reception held by Richard Nixon in his honor. To the State Department's Cultural Exchange Boss William Lacy, who showed up with a broken finger, Kozlov quipped that the accident was from an "EastWest handshake." When Nixon introduced House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck as "a tough politician, like you," Kozlov boomed a laugh. He smiled when he called Electrical Workers' Union Boss James Carey a "tradeunion bureaucrat." Introduced to little (5 ft. 10 in.) House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Kozlov observed that Rayburn's opposite number in the Soviet Union...
...comrade: "There's not much room left, is there?" ¶ Adroitly fielded a press conference question that is bound to come up in a hundred different ways between now and July 1960, as reporters and politicos try to get him to express a personal preference between Vice President Richard Nixon, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, or any other Republican who might be his successor. "I certainly shall never, so far as I am able, indicate publicly ... or privately [a personal preference], because I don't think it is correct or right." ¶ Observed the 43rd anniversary of his marriage...
...Chief Justice of the United States at a Washington cocktail party last week. Heads turned amid the crush of Justices, Senators, Congressmen and newsmen to see Earl Warren face off against Earl Mazo, 40, New York Herald Tribune reporter and author of the notably fair-minded new biography, Richard Nixon, a Political and Personal Portrait (see BOOKS...
ITEK CORP. started when its president, a wartime aerial-reconnaissance expert named Richard Leghorn (M.I.T. '39), borrowed $142,000 from Laurance Rockefeller to buy two science-heavy organizations after the defense-spending cutback hit research in 1957. With these two-Physical Research Laboratories of Boston University and cash-shy Vectron. Inc. (electronics )-Itek began with a well-shaped organization (more than 100 scientists) that would have taken years to build. Though most of its work is classified, and identified only as "graphic retrieval,'' its stock soared from about $1.60 to $60 in a year, counting splits. Among...
...April they stalked off with four others to form Metco (Microwave Electronic Tube Co.) and compete with their former employer. Within nine days they had a plant in Salem, Mass., financing, firm contracts and a production schedule calling for June deliveries of microwave tubes. "Within a year," predicts Founder Richard Broderick, former Bomac treasurer, "we'll have 100 employees. And in three years, we'll be back on the highway...