Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...design advisory committee includes four men from the Boston area: Hideo Sasaki, professor of Landscape Architecture, Benjamin Thompson, professor of Architecture, Hugh A. Stubbins, the Cambridge architect who designed the Loeb Drama Center, and Pietro Belluschi, dean of the M.I.T. School of Design...
...president, Max Karl, catered to Bobby? As Karl later testified, "I was impressed with his title." It would be good for Magic, he added, to have "well-known stockholders," and Baker "knew a lot of people." Baker certainly did, and he touted many of them, including Robert F. Thompson, executive vice president of Tecon Corp., a Dallas construction firm headed by Clint Murchison Jr. When Thompson borrowed $110,000 from Dallas' First National to buy Magic stock and offered to cut Baker in fifty-fifty on profits or losses under a "gentleman's agreement," Baker cleared a cool...
...Washington, six big U.S. firms submitted proposals for four possible satellite designs for Comsat to choose from. The six: A.T. & T. and RCA acting jointly, I.T. & T. and Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Hughes Aircraft, and Ford's Philco subsidiary. In Rome at a meeting with top Comsat officers, skeptical European officials were finally convinced that the company was moving ahead so rapidly that they should work along with it-or see the U.S. monopolize space communications. In about two months, Comsat will put $200 million worth of its stock on sale; with the capital it raises, it will start experiments...
...axiom was one reason that lean, lively Rupert C. Thompson Jr., 58, accepted an invitation seven years ago to succeed Royal Little as head of Rhode Island's vast Textron Inc. Whenever bankers run a company, so went the axiom, the company goes to pot; Thompson, who had spent 28 years in New England banking, wanted to prove that it isn't so. As chairman, he completed Textron's move out of low-profit textiles and into broadly diversified manufacturing. Last week, grown to 26 divisions that produce everything from eyeglasses and iron cookware to rocket engines...
...said Thompson, Baker told him about Magic. Thompson proposed a deal, and borrowed $110,000 from the First National Bank in Dallas to buy the company's stock. Bobby, said Thompson, did not cosign the loan, but he was to share equally in the profits or losses. Again the stock rose, and Baker cleared $21,000-without ever having invested a cent of his own money. Incredulous, the Senators wanted to know why Bobby had not been obliged to sign the note. "I just borrowed the money and had a gentleman's agreement with Bobby," said Thompson. "That...