Word: softspoken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though husbands may moan over the decline of home cooking in the U.S., the era of the TV dinner has been rich fare for a softspoken, Georgia-born paper salesman named R. Carl ("Hap") Chandler, 41. Chandler heads Standard Packaging, which makes material for trays that can be cooked, bags that can be boiled. Says Chandler happily: "Everything that we make is thrown away...
...satellite (less than one-eighth as heavy as Russia's claim for Sputnik). The stretched-out schedule calls for launching smaller test satellites late this year, orbiting the first 21½-lb. ball next spring. The satellites themselves are ready to soar, reports Vanguard's softspoken, pipe-puffing Director John P. Hagen. But the launching vehicle is still undergoing tests. Its first stage, an adaptation of the Navy's Viking, has to work perfectly to do the job: the engine's 27,000-lb. thrust is barely powerful enough to orbit a 21½-lb. ball...
...second of its four presidents to come from the Star. Ben McKelway, 62, is a softspoken, square-faced North Carolinian who started on the strait-laced Star as a reporter in 1921, has been editor of the paper since 1946, and is a onetime president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He was elected by the A.P.'s 24-man board of directors to succeed the Philadelphia Bulletin's President-Publisher Robert McLean, 66, who resigned after 19 years. McLean's predecessor: the late Star Publisher Frank B. Noyes, who as president of the A.P. from...
Founded in 1948 by the Southern governors, the S.R.E.B. has been a major boon to higher education in Dixie. But the man most responsible for its success is its softspoken, diplomatic Director John Eli Ivey Jr. When the governors found him, Sociologist Ivey was only 28-the youngest full professor at the University of North Carolina. His mission with the S.R.E.B.: to fill the gaps in Southern higher education by getting states and campuses to share each other's facilities...
Died. George ("Bugs") Moran, 64, softspoken, hard-eyed Chicago gang leader who got rich on prohibition beer but lost out in mob warfare to Al Capone, never regained his power after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929); in Federal prison (where he was serving two concurrent five-year terms for bank robbery) at Leavenworth, Kans...