Word: thorntons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes me optimistic." The development: a surprising number of aerospace, electronic and other technically oriented companies are branching into shipbuilding, figuring that their scientific talent and sharp cost accounting can bail out the industry. Ingalls Shipbuilding got a technological fillip when it was acquired three years ago by Tex Thornton's Litton Industries. Aerojet-General recently bought Jacksonville's Gibbs Shipyards, and General Dynamics last January picked up Bethlehem Steel's huge yard at Quincy, Mass. Lockheed's highly efficient subsidiary in Seattle, Puget Sound Bridge & Dry Dock, has raised its payroll from...
...support of the fight to free Italy from Fascism; Paul Hoffman, 73, managing director of the U.N. Special Fund, presented with the American Freedom Association's 1964 World Peace Award; Film Cowboy and Multi-millionaire Investor Gene Autry, 56, Novelist Pearl Buck, 71, Litton Industries Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 50, and Architect Minoru Yamasaki, 41, each given a Horatio Alger Award for a noteworthy rise from "humble beginnings"; Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 55, who successfully argued against segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated...
...being a philosophical absolute, existentialism is itself a product of history and thus subject to the limitations of language. Theologians therefore must remember that their own expression of the existential questions may be quite as limited as was St. Paul's. Wilder, who is a brother of Playwright Thornton, criticizes Fuchs's emphasis on faith as obedience, ignoring the New Testament concern for the content of faith. In a chatty postscript, Fuchs answers that his colleagues are aware of the cultural limitations of existentialism; but they still believe it is the most useful starting point for their Biblical...
Hanging on to a precarious 10-3 lead, the Yardlings entered the inning with Paul Thornton on the mound. In the nightmare that followed the Huskie freshmen scored six runs on one hit, six walks, three wild pitches, and two crucial errors. Harvard could not recover from the disaster in its half of the ninth...
Before coach Nat Harris removed Thornton, the hurler had thrown two wild pitches and given up two walks. Roy Creedon, who took over the dismal situation, added another wild pitch and four walks...