Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chairman, he completed Textron's move out of low-profit textiles and into broadly diversified manufacturing. Last week, grown to 26 divisions that produce everything from eyeglasses and iron cookware to rocket engines and rolling mills, Textron added a 27th by buying for $7,000,000 a small Vermont toolmaking firm called Jones & Lamson. Management meetings are brief at Textron because the chairman dislikes rambling conversation, sets a wristwatch alarm to make sure that he does not ramble him self. Shattering the old axiom, Textron, under Banker Thompson, last year earned $18 million on sales of $587 million...
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. In his rambunctious first feature, U.S. Director Adolfas Mekas turns the sober Vermont country side into a landscape by Dali, and proves himself one of the new cinema's most skilled farceurs...
High Hopes. The weather was sunny enough to make the surface moist and soft, cold enough (at 29°) to keep the undercoating hard and fast. U.S. hopes ran high: at the last minute officials had reversed the seedings that determined starting positions, moved both Vermont's Billy Kidd, 20, and Colorado's Buddy Werner, 27, into the coveted first rank. The luck of the draw gave Kidd first crack at the 10,236-ft. course-and when he flashed past the finish line in 2 min. 21.82 sec., almost 1½ sec. better than the course record...
...Forte took third in the pole vault, springing 12 ft., 8 in., 8 1/4 in. short of the winning vault by Vermont's Don Mayland. In the 600-yard run, Dick Briggs and Dieter Wahl finished in 1:19.3 and 1:19.4, well behind the record time of 1:14.6, by sophomore Bob Credle of Holy Cross...
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. In his rambunctious first feature, U.S. Director Adolfas Mekas turns the sober Vermont countryside into a landscape by Dali, and proves himself one of the new cinema's most skilled farceurs...