Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle for Brains. With Lehman-raised cash, Thornton and associates bought Litton, then a small microwave-tube outfit that had supplied Hughes with its best magnetrons, i.e., vacuum tubes that emit radar impulses. During the next 15 months, Litton used stock and cash to pick up half a dozen little-known firms making computers, printed circuits, servomechanisms, communications and navigation equipment. When Litton bought Digital Controls Systems Inc. in 1954, it also got brilliant Research Scientist George Steele; Steele heads Litton's work on lightweight computers that make up to 15,000 calculations per second for a plane...
...Smell of Roast Camel. Little more than 24 hours after the Gromyko-Dulles conversation, Fawzi outlined his scheme to his fellow Arabs in the Hotel Pierre suite of Abdel Khalek Hassouna, Secretary-General of the Arab League, a moribund outfit invented in 1945 by the British and captured by the Egyptians. Fawzi's audience-the representatives of the eight Arab League nations* plus Tunisia and Morocco-personified all the quarrels which have rent the Arab world for 40 years. And some of the quarrels persisted at the meeting. But before long the beauty of Fawzi's plan...
...evening circ. 214,938; Sunday circ. 317,648), plus the Sun's TV station WMAR. Estimated price for 51% control: $20 million. So eager is Publisher Newhouse to get the prestigious Sunpapers that he might be willing to plunk down more than $40 million for the whole outfit...
...professor: "Isn't there a place where taking orders stops and personal responsibility begins, where duty turns into crime and can no longer be excused by blaming the leaders?" Author-Actor Remarque replies vaguely: "Each man has to decide for himself." The private goes back to his outfit-for no other reason than that he is afraid he will be shot if he tries to desert. He gets shot anyway by a Russian guerrilla whom he has just saved from execution. His death only begs the issue. In sentimentalizing the simple German soldier's loving heart and patriotic...
...With terrifying shark teeth painted on their long, snarling snouts, they held their own and better with Jap Zeroes from Kunming to Thailand. And in them, Greg Boyington learned the unforgiving trade of the fighter pilot. He was an ace when he heard that the entire outfit was about to be drafted into the Army. By then, Boyington suspected that "Laughing Boy" Chennault was old-school Army, and had no use for marines. ("I shouldn't think he would even want a dead marine's body stinking up his precious China.") So, just ahead of General Chennault...