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...difficult to see why a bank would want an astronaut as director for other than promotional reasons," said a NASA memo on the subject. But Commander Alan Shepard, 39, saw no difficulty, announced that he and two Texas businessmen were putting up $1,300,000 for 1,800 (of 2,000) shares in the First National Bank of Baytown, Texas, near the abuilding Manned Spacecraft Center. NASA officials finally gave Shepard permission to go ahead, but stopped plans for the other astronauts to get in on the deal. Shepard's name, added NASA, could not be used in connection...
...reluctance to part with any of his properties. "Pop held on to some real dogs," said William Randolph Hearst Jr. recently. The Mirror was one of those dogs, and although the Chief knew it, he did not seem to care. "Dear Arthur," he wrote in a now-famous memo to Arthur Brisbane, who was then the Mirror's publisher: "You are now getting out the worst newspaper...
Miss Innes, who was Guest Editor-in-Chief, wrote the "Memo from the Editor" and an interview with author Joseph Heller. Miss McCutchteon, the Guest Advertising Director, solicited advertising from manufactures of products used by college girls. She also interviewed Robert Whitehead, director of the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center...
This time the quarrel was between a portion of Argentina's factious military, who control the government, and the hapless civilians who serve them. In an angry, 2,500-word memo to his colleagues in the armed forces. General Enrique Rauch, who took over last month as Interior Minister, attacked the whole shaky structure of Argentina's government, from the ministries on down. In Rauch's view, the handling of economic policy was inept, numerous shysters from the Frondizi regime still infested top ranks of government, public opinion was misinformed, and scores of "economic criminals" were conspiring...
...famous State Department memo that somehow fell into Diefenbaker's hands after the President's 1961 Ottawa visit was rumored to have a notation penciled by Kennedy referring to Diefenbaker as an s.o.b. Washington insists Kennedy would never have done such a thing...