Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mastermind the family merger, Getty appointed his affable, efficient son, George Franklin Getty II, 35, who has spent only six weeks with his father since the first year of his life, still refers to him as "Mr. Getty." But his father keeps in close touch on business matters, sends him as many as 20 notes a week from abroad. George, who quit Princeton after only one year ("I knew I wanted to go into the oil business, so why waste time?"), has been put in charge of streamlining the Getty domain. He worked in most of its outposts, was made...
Died. Ernst Heinkel, 70. German airplane pioneer, designer (with a propulsion unit developed by Wernher von Braun) of the world's first (in 1939) rocket plane (the He 176) and jet-propelled aircraft (the He 178), a shrewd mastermind of Luftwaffe production whose farseeing predictions and plans were thumbed down by Hitler and Goring; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Stuttgart, West Germany. Denazified in 1949, Heinkel made motor scooters and midget cars, recently announced plans to go back into big-time planemaking with Willi Messerschmitt...
...ankle playing touch football. But she has become part of the solid front the Kennedys present to the world, even to the point of indulging in masterful oversimplification in defending father Joe against charges that he runs his children's careers. "You'd think he was a mastermind playing chess," says Jackie, "when actually he's a nice old gentleman we see at Thanksgiving and Christmas...
...began, ironically, when Republican Treasury Secretary George Humphrey made his famous observation last January that continued big budgets would lead to a hair-curling depression. President Eisenhower helped it along by inviting Congress to try cutting his budget. Senate Leader Johnson, undisputed mastermind of the 85th, accepted the Republican invitation and turned it into a Democratic party...
Highballing down a well-marked highway last week, Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets committee stopped the caravan to take on some extra cargo, and headed on. Destination: the front door of James Riddle Hoffa, slick, front-running mastermind of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who hopes to take over the presidency from Dave Beck next month. The weighty new cargo, the committee hoped, would prove once and for all that Jimmy Hoffa hooked up with racketeers in what was eventually a successful attempt to seize power in the Teamster organization in New York...