Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before settling on Townsend, Chrysler's president-hunters got turndowns from a bevy of top-ranking U.S. executives, including American Motors President George Romney, Chevrolet General Manager Edward Cole, Ford Vice Presidents James O. Wright and Irving Duffy, and, most recently, General Motors Vice President James E. Goodman. Most who said no were not fearful of Chrysler's long-term future, or dissatisfied with the offer (along with the customary six-figure salary, Chrysler's directors were offering three-year stock options that could be worth $1,500,000). What helped to scare them...
...After a 2½-year search for a president, Mack Trucks Inc., oldest and largest independent U.S. truck maker, found its man last week in McDonnell Aircraft Corp. Vice President Nicholas Dykstra, 47. Dykstra, who joined McDonnell only this year after 26 years at Curtiss-Wright, is an all-round executive with experience in finance, manufacturing, purchasing and sales. No kin to Ford President John Dykstra, Mack's new president has been entrusted with making the truck company's estimated $35 million plant construction and automation program...
...Oxford University cricket pitch went its bang-on, "blue"-aspiring batsman, First Lieut. Pete Dowkins, 23, Army's 1958 All-America halfback and currently a Rhodes scholar. His destination: the States and a month's-end marriage in West Point's Cadet Chapel to Judi Wright, 22, a University of Maryland alumna who followed him to England as a U.S. Air Force schoolmarm...
...four funds are valued together at $3,000,000. They are: ¶James Wright Hunt's $1,000,000 trust, set up in 1949 at the death of the shy Quaker attorney and amateur bird watcher whose fortune began when land he accepted as a legal fee later turned out to hold rich iron-ore deposits. ¶Businessman (real estate, mining, investments) Marshall W. Alworth's $1,000,000 memorial to his parents, limited to students majoring in mathematics, engineering, the physical sciences, and medicine, which has aided a total of 270 students in twelve years, including some...
...After a nearly disastrous second round of 80, blonde golf pro Mickey Wright, 26, fired rounds of 69 and 72 at Baltusrol in Springfield, N.J., ran up a five-over-par 293, won her third woman's national open title in four years...