Word: teller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hurry. He graduated at age 15 from New York's Bronx High School of Science, finished Columbia at the head of his class by age 17, had his doctorate in physics from Columbia by 22. Two years later he was a protégé of Edward Teller, a leader in developing the hydrogen bomb. As one of Robert McNamara's "Whiz Kids" and research director of the Defense Department by the time he was 33, he was nicknamed Childe Harold. Now a mature 49, the brilliant scientist-manager was near the top of Jimmy Carter...
...hawk nor a dove, Brown is a pragmatist suspicious of prevailing views. Says an old friend, Rand Corp. Economist Charles Wolf: "If exposed to hard-line views, he is likely to take softer ones, and if exposed to soft-line views he is likely to take harder ones." Says Teller: "Harold is a realistic, nondoctrinaire person...
...Brown succeeded Teller as director of the University of California's Livermore Laboratory. A year later he moved to Defense, first as director of research and, from 1965 to 1969, as Secretary of the Air Force. Because of his skepticism about many weapons projects, he was nicknamed Dr. No, for the James Bond character. He helped kill the B70 bomber, which was vulnerable to Soviet air defenses. He also was involved in two expensive mistakes: the FTX fighter-bomber, and the Air Force's C-5A transport, whose construction resulted in cost overruns of $2 billion...
Business Support. In 1951 Lance began working as a $90-a-month teller in the Calhoun First National Bank, married the granddaughter of the president, and took over the top job in 1963. Three years later Lance drummed up business support for the unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign of an ambitious political newcomer named Jimmy Carter. When Carter was elected Governor in 1970, he made Lance head of the state's highway department...
...Taixas trash." By this time, Rauschenberg's marriage had mutated into friendship, and there had been a divorce in 1953. In 1955 Rauschenberg moved into a loft in the building in lower Manhattan where Johns had his studio. They supported themselves by doing window displays for Tiffany and Bonwit Teller...