Word: slaytons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glenn's flight is only the beginning. The next man to orbit will probably be Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, 37, an Air Force major, a combat veteran of World War II, a fighter test pilot and an aeronautical engineer. Slayton is scheduled to take off on a three-orbit flight sometime this spring...
...utter devotion to the experiment earned him the flight. Said he with a grin: "Maybe I'm a link between Ham the Space Chimp and man." Whatever the reasons, it was Shepard who was chosen by National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials for the first, historic hop. Slayton and Cooper busied themselves with communications; Schirra and Carpenter flew jet chase planes over the range; Slayton and Grissom were on hand to greet their buddy at Grand Bahama Island; John Glenn was the back-up man and checked out the capsule...
...Lieut. Commander M. Scott Carpenter, U.S.N., Captain L. Gordon Cooper Jr., U.S.A.F., Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., U.S.M.C., Captain Virgil I. Grissom, U.S.A.F., Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., U.S.N., Captain Donald K. Slayton, U.S.A.F...
Through their wholly owned company, Slayton Associates, the Slaytons were supposedly the investment advisers to Managed Funds, and collected more than $1,000,000 in five years for deciding what stocks the fund should buy or sell. In fact, said SEC, the Slaytons made no market decisions. They let Stephen M. Jaquith of Manhattan's Model, Roland & Stone brokerage firm choose what stocks to trade-and also gave Jaquith Managed Funds' brokerage business. Jaquith's commissions: $1,188,155. Another Model, Roland & Stone employee, who collected $240,831: Harold W. Smith, Hovey Slayton's brother...
...Does What. When the Slaytons stepped out under SEC fire, the control of Managed Funds was up for grabs. A New Jersey mutual-fund and investment operator, Morris M. Townsend, moved in quickly, took an option to buy the old Slayton sales firms if he won the proxy battle, hired Slayton salesmen to sell Managed Funds shareholders the Townsend case. The Channing Corp., headed by Kenneth S. Van Strum, which operates eight mutual funds worth $218 million, challenged Townsend. It pointed out to Managed Funds' stockholders that, if Townsend won, the Slaytons would reap another profit through the sale...