Word: virgile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, Chrysler President Virgil Boyd, a dealer before he got into the manufacturing end of the business, has been busy increasing Chrysler dealerships. They have risen from 5,580 to 6,409 since 1962, and Boyd has respotted many of the dealerships in better selling locations. Last week Chrysler dealers were moving new cars at the rate...
Most schools seem to be fearing the worst. Stanford Graduate Division Dean Virgil Whitaker foresees a "potential catastrophic disruption" that could take 75% of the students now in their first year of graduate studies. Dartmouth's School of Business Administration figures that its total enrollment will drop at least 50%; graduate schools at Cornell and the University of Wisconsin peg the loss at about one-third; those at Yale, Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts place it at 25%. Nearly all assume that most of their new students will be either wom en, veterans, foreigners, men with physical ailments...
...Titles. Boyden finds and places some 200 high-level managers a year-all at salaries above $25,000 annually. Currently, there are enough Boyden enlistees roaming U.S. executive suites to staff the private sector of a middle-sized nation. Among the top ones to whom Boyden points: Presidents Virgil Boyd of Chrysler, Arthur Larkin Jr. of General Foods, Stuart Silloway of Investors Diversified Services, John L. Gushman of Anchor Hocking Glass; Chairman A. King McCord of Westinghouse Air Brake; Presidents and Chairmen Harold S. Geneen of ITT, Robert O. Fickes of Philco-Ford...
Critical Changes. Strapped into the conical command module, trapped by hatches impossible to open, Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee scarcely had a chance. Now Apollo has only one hatch, and it can be opened with a ratchet from inside in about five seconds. The mechanism of the new, 70-lb. hatch, which Low says can be opened "with your little finger," is assisted by a cylinder of compressed nitrogen gas. Better for escape during ground tests, the quick-opening hatch also provides easier exit and re-entry during operations outside the spacecraft in flight. Moreover, it assures astronauts...
...will lead many people into the habit who would not otherwise get hooked; 2) lotteries in particular are played mostly by lower-income families and thus constitute an unjust tax on the poor; 3) in places like Nevada, where gambling is legal, criminal elements have certainly not faded away. Virgil Peterson, director of the Chicago crime commission, argues that the underworld inevitably gains a foothold under any licensing system by organizing legal "fronts" and establishing rival illegal operations that place the state-operated venture at a disadvantage...