Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chowing Down. Warmer traditions do survive. In the small Mississippi town of Indianola, there were plenty of home-cooked casseroles and ham and turkey platters at the rehearsal dinner before the May 24 wedding of Ann Delinda Thompson and Kenneth Orlando Thomas, both 25. The food was prepared by friends and neighbors and certified good enough to compete with any catered affair. Even the cake was made locally, although it was the kind of extravaganza that looks like an honors project at a baking school: three small cakes surrounded a central four-layer job, with stairways from level to level...
...professor of aeronautics at M.I.T., headed a joint government-industry team in the late 1970s that solved the problem of these engines' repeatedly blowing up in ground tests. But he still worries about how long they can continue to perform under the stress of repeated launches. So does J.R. Thompson, the senior expert on these engines at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The engines "have been working," says Thompson, "but they always can come back and bite you." In the view of NASA Chief Engineer Milton Silveira, the various shuttle problems will cost at least $500 million...
...attention: announcers attack water beds with chain saws or dress up like gorillas and yell, "You'll go bananas!" In some cases, these homemade off- the-wall routines have caused a company's business to increase 100% or more virtually overnight. Says Burton Manning, chairman of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency: "Silliness sells when you're trying to get an ad to cut through the clutter." To keep viewers from wandering into the kitchen during the station break, many businesses are relying on skits that might have been staged by a bunch of sixth-graders. An ad for Bobby...
...Connor of Eliot House and Wellesley; David Patent '88 Cabot House and Missoula, Mont.; Ellen R. Pinchuk '88 of Mather House and Tarzana, Calif.; Peter D. Sagal '87 of Quincy House and Berkeley Heights, N.J.; Don W. Sung '89 of Thayer Hall and San Francisco, Calif.; John P. Thompson '89 of Pennypacker Hall and Madison, Wisc.; Nathaniel S. Trumbull '89 of Holworthy Hall and Woods Hole...
News Desks: Suzanne Davis, Frances Fiorino, Tam Martinides Gray, Susan Lynd, David Richardson, Diana Tollerson, Jean R. White, Arturo Yaez, Jacalyn McConnell, Pamela H. Thompson, Ann Drury Wellford Administration: Emily Friedrich, Linda D. Vartoogian...