Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that it once sent its science editor to Outer Mongolia for a story about a "dawn redwood." But in 1952 Charles de Young Thieriot, a descendant of the paper's founders and a man convinced that "international news is not what people want to read at breakfast," took control of the Chronicle. As his right-hand man he picked Scott Newhall, lively scion of another leading Bay family. Dipping into Hearst's own bag of tricks, Newhall and Thieriot began converting the Chronicle into a blend of sex, sensation and spice...
...Force C-119 cargo plane equipped with a grappling hook last week snagged in mid-air a third Discoverer satellite - a 300-lb. gold-plated capsule that had traveled more than a million miles in polar orbit before being parachuted near Hawaii upon pushbutton command from a control room in Sunnyvale, Calif...
...salts that make it unpleasant and harmful for men and missiles alike. In addition to satisfying the need of parched humans, the bases must also slake the huge thirst of the rocket complex: thousands of gallons of water are needed to cool intricate machinery and to air-condition control rooms 25 to 35 ft. below the surface...
LAWSUIT THREAT against TWA finally forced Howard Hughes to turn over control, of his 78% of TWA stock to a banking and insurance-company trust. In return, he got loans totaling $165 million to pay for 20 Convair 880 jets. TWA will raise an additional $100 million through a public issue to buy 17 Boeing 707 jets now leased from the Hughes Tool...
FIRST-ROUND VICTORY in the proxy war for control of the Alleghany Corp., the holding company that controls the New York Central and Investors Diversified Services, went to Murchison interests. Court ordered Alleghany Chairman Allan Kirby (TIME, Dec. 12) to turn over list of stockholders to Brothers Clint Jr. and John Murchison to solicit support for taking over the company...