Word: webb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service that President Johnson and Lady Bird attended. In London, the Salvation Army has formed a rock 'n' roll street-corner group called the Joy Strings, whose repertory includes such numbers as We're Going to Set the World A-Swinging. "Our square approach," explains Drummer Captain Joy Webb, "wasn't getting us anywhere...
Harvard sailors brought home another trophy over the weekend, winning the first annual Shields Class Regatta at the New York Maritime Academy on Long island Sound. Navy, Maritime, King's Point, and Webb Institute of Naval Architecture were represented along with Harvard...
...Foolish!" barked NASA Manned-Flight Director Robert Gilruth. "I think maybe this will not happen again." Growled NASA Director James Webb, "This was not an adequate performance by an astronaut." Gemini Pilots Virgil Grissom, 38, and John Young, 34, were on the carpet for something they did on their recent three-orbit mission. Gilruth and Webb told a congressional committee that the corned-beef-on-rye sandwich Young smuggled into their Molly Brown capsule and fed Grissom instead of the scientifically prepared flight diet was strictly unprogrammed. Mincing no words, the administrators decreed that henceforth "corned-beef-sandwich incidents" will...
...this time several high officials, such as Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and James Webb, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, had departed silently, and reporters had slipped into growing numbers of vacant chairs around the coffin-shaped table. Near the end of the session, Busby called upon Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, who turned out to be the showstopper...
Among cash-rich oil companies, realty investment has become a major sideline. In partnership with Contractor Del Webb, Houston's Humble Oil is erecting a satellite city next to the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (for which Humble cannily donated the land). Gulf Oil guaranteed a $20 million bank loan to the developer of the new town of Reston, outside Washington, in exchange for gas-station sites, and made a similar deal with another builder near San Francisco. Union Oil owns a 45% interest in a firm planning a big community in Simi Valley near Los Angeles...