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John Yardley, 37, base manager, capsule designer, and an engineer for McDonnell Aircraft Corp., the space capsule's builders, has responsibility for the proper functioning of the capsule's multiplicity of systems, subsystems and backup systems. Handsome and softspoken, he spent more than a year preparing the Friendship 7 for its orbital flight. It was chiefly his advice that led to the decision to leave Glenn's retrorockets attached on Friendship 7's reentry. Yardley graduated from Iowa State College and earned a master's degree in applied mechanics from Washington University in 1950, worked...
Died. General Randolph McCall Pate, 63, softspoken, hard-driving logistics expert who commanded the Marine Corps from 1956 to 1960; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. A World War I Army private who entered the Marines from Virginia Military Institute in 1921, Pate directed supply operations at Guadalcanal, did staff work on the Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasions, and assumed his only combat command-the 1st Marine Division-in the last months of the Korean...
...account that it has held for 26 years and that brought more than 20% of its billings, Manhattan's Cunningham & Walsh agency put in a new, young management team. Founder John P. Cunningham, 63, moved upstairs to chairman of the executive committee. New head of the agency is softspoken, Kansas-born Carl W. Nichols Jr., 37, a World War II Marine combat lieutenant who joined C. & W. in 1946 as a market researcher, later supervised the Johns-Manville account. Nichols promptly began an austerity program, will drop 10% of the agency's employees...
...University of North Carolina's confident Joseph Wayne Grimsley, 25, is one of seven children of a Wilson county tenant farmer. He graduated near the top of his class with a B.A. in international studies. Though softspoken, Grimsley has no doubt of his future: "I say shoot big. I'm aiming for Secretary of State or something in that line." Born in a farmhouse, Grimsley enlisted in the Army after high school, got his taste for diplomacy while serving at the U.S. embassy in Rome. Using the G.I. bill, he became the first of his family to attend...
...rainy season turned roads into quagmires of oozing mud, and the elephant grass grows eight-feet high, making concealment a simple matter for the terrorists who slipped across the border by night from President Joseph Kasavubu's Republic of the Congo. Most are followers of a determined, softspoken, exiled African Angolan named Holden Roberto, 36, who has spent months organizing the revolt from the headquarters of his Union of the Populations of Angola* in Léopoldville, the Congo's capital. His eager recruits are mostly Angolan expatriates who have fled their country to escape the harsh Portuguese...