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...parts company, has gobbled up one company after another (among them: Paramount Pictures, New Jersey Zinc) to balloon into a $1 bil-lion-a-year operation. A pioneer in the conglomerate-building field, Los Angeles' Litton Industries, which was started almost from scratch by Chairman Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton (TIME cover, Oct. 4, 1963) and President Roy Ash in 1953, is still building. Last week, Litton (1966 sales: $1.2 billion) arranged to pick up yet another property, Pennsylvania-based Landis Tool...
...extension project, McCormack has said that "It will improve the esthetic quality of the west side, while at the same time preserving its essential characteristics." What he considers "essential characteristics" is unclear, for the proposed changes would bury the last remnants of the Capitol portion designed by William Thornton in the 1790's and Charles Bulfinch in the 1820's. It would also replace the steps and terrace designed by Frederick Law Olmstead...
...excluding jurors who oppose capital punishment, the state makes both conviction and imposition of the death sentence more likely, by violating the defendant's right to a jury picked from a full cross section of the community. The second California case differs markedly. In that one, Robert Emmett Thornton, 23, has already been convicted of two kidnap-rapes. While he was awaiting formal sentencing, the A.C.L.U. asked to be allowed to challenge the constitutionality of capital punishment. In a rare move, the judge agreed to take evidence on the point: in September, such anti-death-penalty experts as former...
...latest project-the score for a forthcoming TV musical commissioned by the BBC-is a crucial test, since it is his first major work not built around his harmonica playing. In his own mind he apparently passes the test, for he is now seeking Thornton Wilder's approval for a musical version of The Skin of Our Teeth. "At the moment, I feel I'm a kind of footnote in musical history," Adler explains. "I've put something into concert music that wasn't there before. But if I could make a real mark...
...amounted to $1.2 billion last year. But the Greek venture could be a pilot for applying Litton's systems engineering to similar projects abroad. Already in the works: a deal with Lisbon for joint development of Alentejo, a region in central and southern Portugal. Says Litton Chairman Tex Thornton: "We're using Greece and Portugal as sort of guinea pigs...