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...aviation industry that Transport Specialist Boyd, 42, highly regarded for his outstanding performance at CAB?which he turned from a so-so agency into one of the best-run in Washington ?was going to be moved up. A Florida-born lawyer who logged more than 3,000 hours piloting troop carriers and combat planes in World War II, Boyd was first named to the CAB in 1959 by President Eisenhower. Two years later John Kennedy elevated him to chairman, a job to which he had been reappointed each year since...
...tanks with 90-mm. cannon and armored troop carriers, the 2nd Battalion of the 6th U.S. Marines rolled across the red dust of a once trim polo field on the western outskirts of Santo Domingo and moved cautiously into the war-torn capital of the Dominican Republic. As the columns churned down Avenida Independencia, past the empty side streets, people suddenly appeared in windows and doorways. Some waved. Others stared. A few spoke. "I wish the Americans would take us over," muttered a woman. A man near by sighed and nodded. "Since they are here, we had better take advantage...
Another pet project is the Norodom Sihanouk Museum, a converted colonial residence in the center of the capital, which boasts marble floors, two brand-new, porcelain-tiled bathrooms, and the ivory-inlaid bed in which Snookie was born. Peasants troop through in shoeless reverence to view the robes their Prince donned when he received an honorary doctorate in Indonesia, the army uniform he wore back in 1954 as a leader of Cambodian insurgents, and a certificate issued by French colonial authorities stating that Snookie indeed graduated from grade school. Also on hand: the revolver, holster and flight suit...
Grainger was a scholarly, quiet young man who had devoted his adult years to a search for some fulfilling engagement with life. He grew up in Meriden, Conn., joined the Army Air Forces after high school, later studied anthropology and sociology at Yale. He became a troop-ferrying pilot during the Korean War, then tried civilian life again. In 1958 he became a civilian historian for the Air Force, by 1964 had spent two years in South Viet Nam in that capacity...
...changed course without running aground on a few shoals. It has had six failures among its acquired companies, blames them on its overeagerness to use up a $42 million tax-loss carry-over from its old textile operations. The worst failure was that of the S.S. Leilani, a converted troop transport that Textron bought in 1956. Before Textron finally scuttled her, she lost $6,000,000 cruising to Hawaii. Sailor Thompson and Textron President G. William Miller, 40, both keep a model of the Leilani in their desks. Whenever any Textron executive suggests acquisitions that sound farfetched, they quickly pull...