Word: bendix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Theater of Michigan is gambling its future on two productions this season. The first is General Seeger, a new play by Ira (No Time lor Sergeants) Levin, which opened last week at Detroit's Shubert Theater to cheers from noisily partisan audiences. Directed by Scott, it stars William Bendix as a U.S. Army major general who discovers that the supposedly gallant death of his soldier son was actually a suicide faked as heroism by Army flacks. General Seeger will undergo the ordeal by fire when it moves to Broadway next week...
Detroit's Kelsey-Hayes Co. got ready to step up shelter production from 100 to 250 units a day. In Cincinnati, the Bendix Corp. reported a 1.000% increase in orders for its "Family Radiation Kits"-fallout-detection devices. In California's San Fernando Valley, Joseph Nathanson, a Los Angeles public relations man, gravely watched a flatbed trailer truck thunder down Sepulveda Boulevard carrying a giant, tar-coated concrete cylinder with apertures for vent pipes and doors. "It gives you a jolt, seeing that shelter going down the road," he said. "A year ago I'd have snickered...
Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: Father of the Bride, with William Bendix...
...according to present procedure, only one service was invited. But early one day last week, five Navy F4H-1 Phantom II jets roared down the runway at Los Angeles International Airport and raced eastward. Their goals: Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, a new transcontinental speed record, and the Bendix Trophy-one of the most coveted awards in U.S. aviation...
...work. To prove this was not so, he borrowed $8,000 to start Abilities, talked subcontracts out of Servomechanisms Inc. and the Sperry Gyroscope division of Sperry Rand. Now his impressive list of customers who subcontract work to Abilities includes Republic Aviation, Dictaphone Corp., Sikorsky and Bendix...