Word: wrights
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...church. The vote did not challenge papal supremacy, but it did indicate that the council will eventually provide Catholic bishops with more rights and authority than they now have-and it marked the first sign of real progress since the session began. Said Pittsburgh's Bishop John Wright: "This marks the turning point of the council...
Mosher has had his eye on Garrett for 15 years, particularly admires its president, Harry Wetzel, 43. A few weeks ago, ailing Curtiss-Wright tried to take over Garrett, offered $50 a share for 700,000 Garrett shares, or 47% of the total outstanding (TIME, Oct 18). Mosher moved in quickly, adding 100,000 shares of Garrett to the 12,000 that Signal had previously owned, thus stalling Curtiss. At this point Curtiss tried again-offering Garrett Stockholders $57 a share. Garrett's management, eager not to be swallowed up by troubled Curtiss-Wright, then sat down for three...
EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). A child's view of the life and work of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright...
...knit spirit encouraged by Edward Antoine Bellande, 65, the balding and genial chairman of the Garrett Corp., a California maker of environmental control systems for jet planes and space capsules. Anxious to keep Garrett both thriving and informal, Bellande has led the fight against a takeover by ailing Curtiss-Wright, which has sought to buy 47% of Garrett's stock. A onetime barnstormer, mail pilot and test pilot who was Charles Lindbergh's copilot on one of the first transcontinental passenger runs in 1929, Bellande now restricts his piloting to the company Convair. Behind his desk, on which...
Another critic I hope stays with the nucleus is Irving Howe, whose piece on C. Wright Mills is a critique of the person, instead of his writing, executed in the best way. That Howe and Mills were at one time friends is central to the article, which discusses with vivid biographical scenes the evolution of Mills' ideas...