Word: hedrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah to Khomeini. "We'd be groveling if we caved in now," says Boston Lawyer-Author George V. Higgins. But some consider that it was a major blunder to admit the Shah in the first place, even for medical treatment. Above all, there is frustration and anger. Willard Hedrick, owner of a construction company...
...Rockies. Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Austin, Omaha and others are quietly booming, with their unemployment down to the 2½%-3½ range. They are the beneficiaries of economic diversification and the increasing desire of Americans to settle in cities that, as Beech Aircraft President Frank Hedrick puts it, "are small enough to allow individuals to excel and big enough to give them plenty of room to excel...
...Hedrick, 68, whose florid face testifies to years spent in the summer sun and winter winds of Wichita, points out that "this certainly isn't the world's fanciest climate, so we must have other advantages." In his view, one echoed by various local business and labor chiefs: "A work ethic still exists in this part of the world. People feel they have to give a day's work for a day's pay." Local people commonly speak of the city's Midwestern "openness." Says Hedrick: "I was in North Palm Beach the other...
...thought by many associates to be anxious to settle the future control of her company while she is still in active command. With some 20% of Beech's stock held by Olive Ann, her two daughters (who have no role in management) and a nephew, Frank Hedrick, 67, Beech's president since 1968. the company is very much a family affair. But after Olive Ann's death or retirement, Beech could conceivably fall victim to an unfriendly takeover bid like that experienced by one of its major competitors, Piper Aircraft, at the hands of Chris-Craft Corp...
...Linda Hedrick Los Angeles...