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Died. Emory D. Alvord, 73, Utah-born Congregational missionary who brought "the Gospel of the Plow" to Southern Rhodesia, revolutionized agricultural methods in central Africa; of a heart attack; in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia...
...William C. Whitehead, 61, moved up from executive vice president to president of fast-growing, widely diversified Garrett Corp., of Los Angeles, which does a $100 million-a-year business manufacturing aircraft and industrial equipment. Utah-born Whitehead, a World War I Navy pilot, ran his own flying service in Cleveland, then worked briefly for an aircraft-parts distributor before joining the infant Garrett organization's industrial-tools division in 1938. Four years later he was named manager of Garrett's Airsupply Co., in 1952 became the Garrett Corp.'s executive vice president. He replaces Founder John...
Horseback Clinics. Reser is the last survivor of the U.S. Marines' 19-year (1915-34) occupation of Haiti. A Utah-born Mormon, who joined the Navy in his youth to see the world, he went to the island 25 years ago as a chief pharmacist's mate assigned to conduct horseback clinics for ailing peasants. Reser took to the people and their tropical ways at once. He studied the properties of native herbs, listened to the advice of voodoo doctors...
Soft-pedaling the covered-wagon past, Physicist-President Albert Ray Olpin invited, as a principal centennial guest, fellow Physicist Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, president of CalTech, to talk on "The Crisis in Science." Among the other festivities were the world premiere of Utah-born Composer Leroy Robertson's first...
...plan is the work of dark, smart Brigadier General Albert Jesse Browning, 45, the Utah-born ex-wallpaper manufacturer who is the Army's assistant director of materiel. General Browning carefully tested the plan on some 15 companies, then had it approved by Contract Settlement Boss Robert Hinckley. The plan permits contractors right now to begin filling out the forms needed to wind up a contract, and to work out an agreement on costs and profits, to take effect the moment the contract is actually canceled...