Word: stratton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DAYS. PBS. Thursday, 8 p.m. E.D.T. His wife Alice keeps saying that Dick Stratton is so much more tolerant since he came home from his long trip. It may be so-certainly he seems amiable in his exchanges with her and their three sons, as well as with neighbors and the TV crew that made 2,251 Days...
Airport planning, under the engineering firm of Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton (TAMS), was so far ahead of its time that many features resulted in an updating of FAA regulations. New patterns of lighting for both centers and edges of runways, as well as brighter, low-glare runway signs for pilots, will now become mandatory. TAMS also persuaded the FAA that conventional twelve-inch runways were not thick enough. DFW uses 17 inches of concrete, enough to receive million-pound aircraft (a fully loaded, stretched 747 weighs 880,000 lbs.). Furthermore, the runways are designed for thickening to 24 inches...
Representatives at Saturday's eight-hour convention also elected nine officials to head the state chapter of the Federation this year. Schuck was elected chairman, and Clifford J. Stratton '75 is the new treasurer. The other new officials are students from other New England colleges which sent representatives to the convention...
...apprehensions faded, a new idea set in: perhaps the P.O.W.s had been humanely treated after all. That illusion was shattered last week. With all the known surviving prisoners safely home from Viet Nam, the dam of restraints broke, and tales of mistreatment and torture poured forth. Navy Commander Richard Stratton, best known for his deep bows and seemingly drugged appearance in a 1967 news conference, summed up the reports of many prisoners when he said: "I have been tortured, I have been beaten, I have been placed in solitary confinement, I have been harassed, I have been humiliated." Navy Lieut...
...Anton Cermak. Kerner's father who had worked himself up from poverty to the federal bench, beamed with pride as he swore in his son as a US attorney. Mayor Richard Daley then recruited Kerner as a blue-ribbon candidate to run for Governor in 1960 against William Stratton, whose administration had been plagued by scandal...