Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BankBoston Celebrity Series brought the Panazz players back to light up Symphony Hall again this year. They performed last March for the first time in the Boston area and were back before Thanksgiving with more steel drum action. Opening the concert was Ken "Professor" Philmore, who has performed with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Tito Puente and Cassandra Wilson in the past. Philmore's pan solos got the crowd in the mood, but his band struggled to keep up with him. Philmore is a pan master and has been playing steel drums since he was four years old, beginning...
...company Bechtel built is not universally loved. One partner in the wartime shipyards was John McCone, a steel executive who later became CIA director. He came early in a long line of men who filled high offices alternately in Bechtel and the Federal Government (most notable: George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger). That led to charges of undue influence--by whom on whom was never quite clear. The company's penchant for secrecy didn't help its reputation either. In 1976 the Justice Department charged that Bechtel had gone too far to please Arab clients by blacklisting potential subcontractors who dealt...
World War II liberated Tom Watson Jr. from his demons. His success in promoting the use of flight simulators earned him a job as aide and pilot for Major General Follett Bradley, the Army Air Forces' inspector general. Watson flew throughout Asia, Africa and the Pacific, displaying steel nerves and shrewd foresight and planning skills. He was set to fly for United Air Lines after the war when a chance conversation with Bradley changed his course. Informed of Watson's job plans, the general said, "Really? I always thought you'd go back and run the IBM company." A stunned...
...Mellon Scaife, 66, publisher of Pittsburgh's Tribune Review. Pulitzer suffered from nervousness so acute that he lived out his later years in double-insulated, soundproof rooms. As for Scaife, he spent some of his Mellon family megabucks (Alcoa, Mellon Bank) to buy a suburban newspaper, give it a Steel City moniker and publish an unending string of kooky conspiracy theories centered on the Clintons...
METAL TENNIS RACQUET Rene ("Le Crocodile") Lacoste, the 1920s French tennis champ turned clothing entrepreneur, invented a steel tennis racquet in 1963. It was distributed in the U.S. by Wilson as the T-2000 and quickly revolutionized the game...