Word: wrights
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Died. Robert Fowler, 80, daredevil early birdman who in 1911, after only three hours of instruction, became the first to fly across the U.S. from West to East, sputtering from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, Fla., in a bamboo-and-linen Wright Brothers biplane, an odyssey that took 45 flying days and 112 days overall because of the time spent repairing his machine after literally dozens of crashes; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Jose, Calif...
...campaign; yet with the Bircher's characteristic astigmatism, he went so far as to label Conservative Mundt as a liberal "like Hubert Humphrey." With the prestige and seniority of 18 years in the Senate, Mundt is seen as a shoo-in over Democratic State Representative Donn H. Wright, 44, in November...
Worried savings and loan men insist that pint-size C.D.s steal their customers, and the Administration seems to agree. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler wants Congress to empower federal bank regulators to roll back the maximum interest to 5% on C.D.s of less than $10,000. House Banking Committee Chairman Wright Patman wants to outlaw all C.D.s on the ground that they have become "financial monsters." Congress will probably give the Johnson Administration about what Fowler asked. Whether it will act fast enough to protect savings and loan associations from heavy savings losses after their semiannual dividend payments next month...
...prevent the confirmation of Francis X. Morrissey as federal judge; National Reporting: Haynes Johnson of the Washington Evening Star; International Reporting: Peter Arnett of the Associated Press; Local Reporting, special: John A. Frasca of the Tampa Tribune; Editorial Writing: Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Cartoons: Don Wright of the Miami News; News Photography: Kyoichi Sawada of UPI; History: the late Perry Miller; Biography: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter; Poetry: Richard Eberhart; Nonfiction: Edwin Way Teale...
Elected to the board of directors were Andrew P. Tobias '67, Mario L. Yon '67, Jeffrey G. Wright '68, and Thomas M. Burger...