Word: bendix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humorists, she thrives on embellishment, taking small facts and inflating them into outrageous acts of hyperbole. When one of her boys came home with a dead horseshoe crab, she put it down the Dispose-All in fact, but in print she claimed it had been stored in the Bendix and washed with a load of sheets. "You take the thing, touch it up, improve it," she says, "and turn it the way you want...
After eight months of shopping. Trans World Airlines finally got a new president and chief executive officer. He is Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., 50, former vice president of Bendix Corp., and a friend of onetime Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest Breech, who joined the TWA board as a representative of the creditors who lent the line $165 million for new jets...
Tillinghast, a varsity football center at Brown University ('32), graduated from Columbia Law School in 1935 and joined a Manhattan law firm. In 1942, when Ernie Breech became president at Bendix, he signed up the law firm, and Tilling hast handled Bendix affairs. In 1957 Tillinghast joined Bendix, became director of its foreign operations...
...airliners carry weather radar, but the sets show only the proximity of storms and not other aircraft. The FAA soon hopes to have an automatic, lightweight anticollision device that would warn approaching planes, as in the New York crash. One possibility: Bendix Corp. has developed a collision-avoidance system that bounces signals both off neighboring aircraft and off the ground to determine an approaching aircraft's course, tells the pilot what evasive action to take. The Sperry Rand Corp. is developing a system that uses high-frequency radio-wave techniques to detect the proximity of another aircraft; Motorola...
Pedalless Car. Automobile controls that eliminate the brake and gas pedals were demonstrated by Bendix Corp. Two pressure plates flush with the floorboards replace the pedals. Braking is faster because the driver does not have to lift his foot. Bendix claims the development will make pedals "as obsolete as the hand crank...