Word: wyman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...News Special. Reporting on the Wyman-Durkin election run-off in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Read Why Wiley Will Win on the Ed Page today...
UNLESS THE vote for the far right-wing American Independent Party candidate is a good deal higher than expected, New Hampshire is going to elect former Republican Congressman Louis C. Wyman to the Senate tomorrow. Although all polls up until today have shown Wyman and his principal opponent, John A. Durkin, a Democrat who served as state insurance commissioner, in a virtual dead heat, a critical error of strategy by Durkin will probably cost him the election...
...William McCune Jr., 59, Polaroid's executive vice president and, since the founding of the company in 1937, its senior engineer. The surprise was not merely that Land finally anointed a possible successor, but also that McCune's new job did not go to General Manager Thomas Wyman, 45. A sales and administrative whiz who came to Polaroid ten years ago from the Nestle Co., Wyman had been widely regarded as the heir apparent. But just before McCune's promotion was announced, Wyman quit to accept the president's job at the Green Giant food company...
...helped Land develop the first instant-picture camera in the 1940s. Lately his main job has been to work out the problems that still bedevil production of the SX-70, Polaroid's revolutionary instant-color camera, and have cut deeply into the company's earnings. Unlike Wyman, McCune is not the sort to chafe at Land's tight grip. He has said in the past that he accepts Land's managerial motto: "You can do anything you want to-as long as you do what I want...
...situation remains as fluid as ever. Durkin has petitioned the U.S. Senate to review the contested ballots. Wyman has requested that the state's courts call a new election. What is more, Republican Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. has asked the legislature to schedule an election...