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...Thomas Webb, a Washington representative for the Murchison family of Texas, told the committee that in 1961 Baker was responsible for finding a buyer for meat for the Murchison-bankrolled Haitian-American Meat & Provisions Co. (Hampco) of Port-au-Prince. For this, Webb said, Baker earned a ¼?-a-lb. "finder's fee." Later, when a Chicago firm, Packers Provision Co., bought Hampco's output, Baker began receiving a ⅛-a-lb. commission, though he had no part in getting Packers and Hampco together. Packers President William Kentor has said that Hampco "insisted" Baker be paid. Besides getting...
...making the announcement, NASA administrator James E. Webb said...
...Attack. While many other departments and agencies will lose money under the new budget, others inevitably will gain. Among these is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which will go up by $50 million to $4.5 billion-and even that is not what NASA Director James Webb wants in his effort to get to the moon...
...married a nymphomaniac. A discarded husband and father of 29 years before turns up to meet his sons and resample a bit of the vocal and emotional hell that he and their mother can still give each other. Old rage rather than old age is their subject. Alan Webb, as an ancient butler, potters and poeticizes near life's exit with a funny and touching gallantry and even cheats incipient rigor mortis a couple of times...
...Mucomyst spray is no cure, but it appears to be less irritating than previous aerosols. While its effects may be most dramatic in cystic fibrosis, the University of Mississippi's Dr. Watts R. Webb reports that the drug seems to be equally useful in other diseases in which mucus blocks breathing...