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...Willard F. Rockwell Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Rockwell-Standard Corp. and Rockwell Manufacturing...
Grape Wine portrays Wyeth's friend and handyman Willard Snowden. Since 1964, he has painted the wine-loving Negro drifter often in wistful poses suggestive of eternal human patience. Says Wyeth: "He gave me a chance to paint something timeless, ageless, endless. He's all of the Brandywine Valley, its dankness and brooding power...
Lupu, a-student at the Moscow Conservatory, does not have to worry about competitions for a while. In addition to his first-prize money, he won a $400 gold watch for the best performance of Structure for Piano, composed for the contest by Willard Straight, $300 for the best interpretation of Copland's Piano Sonata, the opportunity to play with twelve major U.S. orchestras, a three-month tour of Europe, a debut recital at Carnegie Hall in April, and a contract for further concertizing in the U.S., Canada and Latin America...
...research, U.C.L.A. has created the nucleus of a truly first-rate teaching staff, luring men from other campuses with annual salaries of $25,000 or more. From Rome's Istituto Superiore di Sanita came Chemist Daniel Bovet, a Nobel prizewinner in 1957. Another Nobel recipient, Willard Libby, helps make U.C.L.A.'s chemistry department one of the ten best in the U.S. In the past six years, U.C.L.A. has created ten new interdisciplinary study centers, ranging from brain research to medieval and Renaissance studies to space science, a College of Fine Arts, Schools of Public Health, Dentistry, Architecture...
Only personal intervention by President Johnson on Oct. 2 had persuaded the unions to postpone the strike for two weeks. At that time, the President named a mediation panel whose members included Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Commerce Secretary John Connor. Summoning the labor-management negotiators to Washington, McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff lectured them about G.E.'s "vital importance to national defense." Mc Namara noted that the U.S. depends on General Electric to supply, among many things, the engines for the nation's best fighter plane, the F-4 Phantom...