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Microsoft Announces Reorganization
Posted March 29, 1999 By
REDMOND, Wash., March 29, 1999 — Microsoft President Steve Ballmer and CEO Bill Gates today announced a sweeping reorganization, designed to refocus the company on the needs of customers.
The heart of the restructuring is the creation of distinct customer-centered business groups:
The Business and Enterprise Division, which will focus on the information technology needs of large organizations.
The Consumer Windows Division, which will focus on improving Windows for the end user.
The Business Productivity Group, which will focus on the needs of the
“knowledge worker”
who is on the road and always in need of his or her data.
The Developer Group, which will focus on helping developers who write software for all Microsoft platforms,
The Consumer and Commerce Group, which will work to make it easier for customer and businesses to get together online.
The business divisions will think and act in parallel, each driving product planning and marketing strategies for customers. The customer-focused parallelism represents a move away from the alignment by products and technologies that Microsoft has used since its founding.
“This new structure is part of the reinvention of Microsoft,” said Ballmer.
Another part of that reinvention is a broadened new vision.
“Our original vision of ‘a computer on every desk and in every home’ is still extremely relevant,” said Gates. “Looking to the future our vision is much more expansive. We see a world where people can use any computing device to do whatever they want to do anytime, anywhere. The PC will continue to have a central role in this future, but it will be joined by an incredibly rich variety of digital devices accessing the power of the Internet.”
“We want to give people the power, connectivity and the ability to choose how they want to use computing in their lives,” Gates added.
Ballmer also announced the formation of a new Business Leadership Team. This team will replace the Executive Committee formed in December 1996, as the most senior-level decision-making team at the company. Members of the team will include: Jim Allchin, Orlando Ayala, Steve Ballmer, Brad Chase, Jon DeVaan, Bill Gates, Bob Herbold, Laura Jennings, Joachim Kempin, Greg Maffei, Paul Maritz, Mich Mathews, Bob Muglia, Bill Neukom and Jeff Raikes.
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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1999/mar99/reorgpr.mspx
Microsoft PressPass
News Press Release
Gates and Ballmer Outline Blueprint to Reinvent Microsoft
Executives Announce Company Realignment to Better Focus on Customers, Refresh Company Vision and Lay the Foundation for Meeting the Challenges of the Future
REDMOND, Wash., March 29, 1999 — Microsoft Corp. President Steve Ballmer and Chairman and CEO Bill Gates today outlined a fundamental realignment of the company
"This new structure is part of the reinvention of Microsoft," said Ballmer. "Software is going to play a far broader role in our lives than we can even imagine today. When we took stock of our ability to meet these future opportunities, it became clear that we were organized to meet today's needs but not those of the next decade.
"Our original vision of 'a computer on every desk and in every home' is still extremely relevant," said Gates. "Looking to the future, our vision is much more expansive.
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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times Search
Monday, March 29, 1999
Microsoft Moves To `Reinvent' Itself
By Jay Greene, Paul Andrews
Seattle Times Technology Reporters
IN ANNOUNCING a sweeping realignment of its business into four product groups, the software giant is sharpening its focus on the customer.
Microsoft announced its long-rumored reorganization today, calling the sweeping move a "reinvention" of the Redmond software company.
The reorganization is meant, in part, to address a concern voiced by several Microsoft workers that the company lacked a rallying cry - a strategy to drive their daily efforts. The company, which had great success when it put significant effort behind the original development of Windows and its initial push onto the Internet, hasn't had that sort of mission lately.
Ballmer acknowledged as much; he hoped the changes would put "a little extra zing in our step."
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Theodore H. Maiman
American physicist
Theodore H. Maiman, in full Theodore Harold Maiman (born July 11, 1927, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.—died May 5, 2007, Vancouver, B.C., Can.), American physicist, who constructed the first laser, a device that produces monochromatic coherent light, or light in which the rays are all of the same wavelength and phase. The laser has found numerous practical uses, ranging from delicate surgery to measuring the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
After receiving a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1955, Maiman accepted a position with the Hughes Research Laboratories (now HRL Laboratories, LLC), where he became interested in a device developed and built by Charles H. Townes and colleagues and known as a maser (acronym for “microwave [or molecular] amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”). Maiman made design innovations that greatly increased the practicability of the solid-state maser. He then set out to develop an optical maser, or laser, which is based on the maser principle but produces visible light rather than microwaves. He operated the first successful laser in 1960 and two years later established Korad Corporation for research, development, and manufacture of lasers. Maiman later sold Korad and worked as a consultant at TRW, a technology corporation. His autobiography, The Laser Odyssey, was published in 2000.
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Media Decoder
Behind the Scenes, Between the Lines
JUL 8, 2011
Tweeting an Anniversary and 5 Million Slurpees
By STUART ELLIOTT
Each year, the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores invites its customers to join in celebrating 7-Eleven Day, which is the anniversary of its founding on July 11, 1927.
http://techland.time.com/2012/11/22/behold-some-of-the-first-apple-computer-photos-ever/
TIME
Behold, Some of the First Apple Computer Photos Ever
Apple's first dealer shares his 1976 photos of the Apple-1, the company's first product.
By Harry McCracken @harrymccracken Nov. 22, 2012
Paul Terrell opened the Byte Shop in Mountain View, California in December of 1975. It was one of the first computer stores in the world, and did a lot to help popularize a business which just barely existed at the time. And it earned an even more legendary spot in tech history in 1976, when a couple of local proto-computer geeks tried to convince Terrell to sell the rudimentary PC they'd cobbled together.
Those geeks were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. They called their machine the Apple-1, and it was a do-it-yourself kit; any buyers would have to solder the necessary chips onto the circuit board themselves, then supply accoutrements such as a power supply, keyboard and display.
Terrell was intrigued, but told Jobs that what he really needed were fully-assembled computers. In fact, if Jobs could come back with an assembled version of the Apple-1, the Byte Shop would buy fifty of them. Jobs did, and the Byte Shop became the first Apple dealer (it eventually offered the Apple-1 in a wooden case with keyboard and power supply).
Terrell's deal helped turn Apple from a project into a company. Just as important, it steered Jobs and Woz in the direction of making gadgets which were unusually approachable. Apple kept that concept going with 1977's Apple II. It's still at it today.
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The Byte Shop opens for business on December 8, 1975
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029273/releaseinfo
IMDb
Murder Goes to College (1937)
Release Info
USA 24 February 1937
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek-the-animated-series/the-jihad-50607/
tv.com
Star Trek: The Animated Series Season 1 Episode 16
The Jihad
Aired Saturday 10:30 AM Jan 12, 1974 on NBC
Kirk leads a party to retrieve a religious relic that was stolen. However, he is faced with sabotage from within the group by someone who doesn't want the relic to be found, which will trigger an intergalactic jihad.
AIRED: 1/12/74
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
129 - Remarks Upon Presenting the Medal of Honor to Maj. Robert J. Modrzejewski and 2d Lt. John J. McGinty III, USMC.
March 12, 1968
Major and Mrs. Modrzejewski and family; Lieutenant and Mrs. McGinty and family; Secretary Ignatius; General Chapman, Commandant of the Marine Corps; distinguished Members of the Congress; ladies and gentlemen:
We have just heard an extraordinary tribute to the courage of two men. They are Marines. They are comrades. They are heroes. But they are first and last--Americans.
In the story of their triumph, the voice of a people's character and a nation's greatness is brought before us. We should all understand that that is a voice with steel in it.
Last night I remembered another voice from another troubled and decisive time. I turned to the pages of a book where another President spoke to this Nation in time of a war. He told of the stories of courage and heroism on far battlefields. He called for the same strength of character and staunchness of spirit in every American home here and in every American heart.
Said President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the early months of another Pacific war: "As we here at home contemplate our own duties and our own responsibilities, let us think, and let us think hard, of the example which is being set for us by our fighting men. Our soldiers and our sailors are members of well-disciplined units. But they are still and forever individuals--free individuals. They are farmers and workers, businessmen, professional men, artists, and clerks. They are the United States of America. That is why they fight. We, too, are the United States of America."
Americans loathed war in that day, too. Forced to fight a war, Americans were impatient and frustrated by setbacks.
President Roosevelt also spoke to that anxiety when he said, 5 months after Pearl Harbor, "We have had no illusions about the fact that this is a tough job--and a long one." And this Nation has no illusions now. This is an anxious time for America. it calls for every fiber of our courage, every resource of our intelligence, every capacity for sound judgment that the American people can summon--and that the American people possess.
I think if we are steady, if we are patient, if we do not become the willing victims of our own despair, if we do not abandon what we know is right when it comes under mounting challenge--we shall never fail.
Responsibility never comes easy. Neither does freedom come free.
These brave men whom we have asked to come here to the East Room today and whom we honor now, know that better than we, perhaps. They know in the most immediate way that men can ever know it. They know it in the face of an aggressor's fire.
Major Modrzejewski and Lieutenant McGinty stand in the long unbroken rank of heroes who have been this Nation's pride and have been this Nation's strength from the beginning when America itself as Lafayette once said "was a dream that every man carried in his heart."
Men like these Marines have seen America all through our troubled periods. They have fought with valor, in the early months, the enemy's expanded war, when the regular units of the North Vietnamese Army were beginning to cross the border as aggressors in significant size.
Today, the enemy force waging destruction south of the DMZ is made up of many, many regular units who have already invaded their neighbor nation from the north. International aggression is open now and it is undisguised.
The early pretense of attempting to fool some of the people some of the time that this was only a civil war has now had the cloak pulled from around it and even they have abandoned it, as have their spokesmen.
So let us have no illusions about that, either. And let no one ever suffer any illusions about the will and about the faith of free men, the American fighting man, the family of citizens who stand by him here and who stand by him out there.
Yes, we all loathe war. Yes, we argue about war. But we are one people and we have learned the hard lesson of history.
President Franklin Roosevelt had to say it and he said it with a heavy heart. I must repeat it now and my heart is heavy, too.
"The price for civilization must be paid in hard work and must be paid in sorrow and in blood--and the price is not too high."
But my heart this morning is proud and it is confident, too. I look at these two gallant Marines and I see America. I see in their countenance the answer to aggression. I see in their face the certainty of freedom and I see in their presence the hope and the promise of peace.
Secretary Ignatius will now read the citations.
[Text of citations read by Secretary Ignatius]
The President of the United States in the name of The Congress takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to
MAYOR ROBERT J. MODRZEJEWSKI
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
for service as set forth in the following
CITATION:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as Commanding Officer, Company K, Third Battalion, Fourth Marines, Third Marine Division, in the Republic of Vietnam from 15 to 18 July 1966. On 15 July, during Operation HASTINGS, Company K was landed in an enemy infested jungle area to establish a blocking position at a major enemy trail network. Shortly after landing, the company encountered a reinforced enemy platoon in a well organized, defensive position. Major (then Captain) Modrzejewski led his men in the successful seizure of the enemy redoubt, which contained large quantities of ammunition and supplies. That evening a numerically superior enemy force counterattacked in an effort to retake the vital supply area, thus setting the pattern of activity for the next two and one-half days. In the first series of attacks, the enemy assaulted repeatedly in overwhelming numbers but each time was repulsed by the gallant Marines. The second night the enemy struck in battalion strength, and Major Modrzejewski was wounded in this intensive action which was fought at close quarters. Although exposed to enemy fire, and despite his painful wounds, he crawled 200 meters to provide critically needed ammunition to an exposed element of his command and was constantly present wherever the fighting was heaviest. Despite numerous casualties, a dwindling supply of ammunition and the knowledge that they were surrounded, he skillfully directed artillery fire to within a few meters of his position and courageously inspired the efforts of his company in repelling the aggressive enemy attack. On 18 July, Company K was attacked by a regimental size enemy o force. Although his unit was vastly outnumbered and weakened by the previous fighting, Major Modrzejewski reorganized his men and calmly moved among them to encourage and direct their efforts to heroic limits as they fought to overcome the vicious enemy onslaught. Again he called in air and artillery strikes at close range with devastating effect on the enemy, which together with the bold and determined fighting of the men of Company K, repulsed the fanatical attack of the larger North Vietnamese force. His unparalleled personal heroism and indomitable leadership inspired his men to a significant victory over the enemy force and reflected great credit upon himself, the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The President of the United States in the name of the Congress takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to
SECOND LIEUTENANT JOHN J. MCGINTY III
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
for service as set forth in the following
CITATION:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as Acting Platoon Leader, First Platoon, Company K, Third Battalion, Fourth Marines, Third Marine Division, in the Republic of Vietnam on 18 July 1966. Second Lieutenant (then Staff Sergeant) McGinty's platoon, which was providing rear security to protect the withdrawal of the battalion from a position which had been under attack for three days, came under heavy small arms, automatic weapons and mortar fire from an estimated enemy regiment. With each successive human wave which assaulted his thirty-two-man platoon during the four-hour battle, Second Lieutenant McGinty rallied his men to beat off the enemy. In one bitter assault, two of the squads became separated from the remainder of the platoon. With complete disregard for his safety, Second Lieutenant McGinty charged through intense automatic weapons and mortar fire to their position. Finding twenty men wounded and the medical corpsman killed, he quickly reloaded ammunition magazines and weapons for the wounded men and directed their fire upon the enemy. Although he was painfully wounded as he moved to care for the disabled men, he continued to shout encouragement to his troops and to direct their fire so effectively that the attacking hordes were beaten off. When the enemy tried to out-flank his position, he killed five of them at point-blank range with his pistol. When they again seemed on the verge of overrunning the small force, he skillfully adjusted artillery and air strikes within fifty yards of his position. This destructive fire power routed the enemy, who left an estimated 500 bodies on the battlefield. Second Lieutenant McGinty's personal heroism, indomitable leadership, selfless devotion to duty, and bold fighting spirit inspired his men to resist the repeated attacks by a fanatical enemy, reflected great credit upon himself, and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Note: The President spoke at 12:45 p.m. in the East Room at the White House.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
132 - Remarks at a Dinner of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
March 12, 1968
Commander Scerra, Senator Russell, distinguished Members of Congress, members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, ladies and gentlemen:
I came here to join you briefly this evening because it gave me a chance to share in the high honor that your great organization is paying to a champion of the American fighting man, a great friend of the American veteran, a leader for decades of all the people of this country, and I am very proud to say my longtime and good friend, Richard Russell of Georgia.
I would also like to take a moment now to pay tribute to another splendid Georgian-a great American--Dean Rusk. I do not believe ever in our history has this office been filled by a more dedicated or by a more sincere American. I have never heard United States policy and our commitments so eloquently stated--and under such very trying circumstances--than was done by Secretary Rusk in the last 2 days before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
If this Nation is secure--and if it is kept secure--all Americans will owe a great debt to these two great Georgians, Dick Russell and Dean Rusk.
I have always heard that the Veterans of Foreign Wars dinner attracts more Members of Congress than any other social event. As I look around this room tonight, I can well believe that. I see many of my old-time friends from Capitol Hill here. I do still have some friends left up there.
Of course, many of my political friends are home tonight, watching TV. I am told that there is a special on tonight--from New Hampshire.
You know the New Hampshire primaries are unique in politics. They are the only races where anybody can run--and everybody can win.
I think New Hampshire is the only place where candidates can claim 20 percent is a landslide, and 40 percent is a mandate, and 60 percent is unanimous.
I had an early report from New Hampshire this morning on these unbiased television networks. They had counted 25 votes there--the first 25, and the vote for LBJ was zero. I said to Mrs. Johnson, "What do you think about that?" She answered, "I think the day is bound to get better, Lyndon."
Well, it has been a long day. And I have not been home to dinner yet. But I am proud to come here and to bring to this great organization my message of gratitude. I want to thank your commander and every member of this organization for all that you have done--for all that you are doing--for the security and well-being of the United States of America.
I want to thank you for the support that you gave our surtax proposal which would make fiscal responsibility possible and would give confidence to the rest of the world.
I want to thank you for your support when the debt ceiling had to be raised.
I want to thank you for joining me and helping me settle the railroad strike.
I want to thank you for endorsing the extension of the draft so we would not have to send our Army home.
I told Tiger Teague,1 my dear friend, Chairman of the Veterans Committee, coming in tonight: I want to thank all of you for backing every piece of legislation to aid our men in Vietnam when they come home and when they join you as Veterans of Foreign Wars.
1Olin E. Teague, Representative from Texas.
I want all of those who hear me or read me to know that I believe that you are great spokesmen for the American veteran--for the man who has laid his life on the line for his country.
But you have also been a voice for responsibility in all world affairs. You have understood that duty always travels with strength, that the greatness of a nation is measured by its willingness to fulfill its moral obligations to its own people, as well as to mankind.
The United States, at the end of the Second World War, did not go out in search of new obligations. Our strength, and our commitment to man's freedom, brought those obligations right here to our door. Four Presidents now have recognized those obligations. Ten Congresses have verified them.
They have been costly--in blood and in treasure. The only higher cost would have come from our ignoring them or from our failure to assume them. The price of isolationism--whether it is the old-fashioned kind of isolationism that is rooted in ignorance, or the new-fashioned kind that grows from weariness and impatience--whatever its kind, isolationism exacts the highest price of all and, ultimately, as we have learned, it is unpayable.
Our goal, my friends, is not the unlimited extension of American responsibilities anywhere. It is clearly not the conquest of a single foot of territory anywhere in the world. It is not the imposition of any form of government or economy on any other people on this earth.
Our goal is peace--the blessed condition that allows each nation to pursue its own purposes:
--free of marching invaders and aggressors;
--free of terror in the night;
--free of hunger, and ignorance, and crippling disease.
If we take up arms, we take them up only to guard against those enemies. It is to help the nation builders. It is to try to shield the weak so that time can make them strong. It is to bar aggression. It is to build the lasting peace. That is your country's single purpose today.
We send our young men abroad because peace is threatened--in other lands tonight, and ultimately in our own.
We take our stand to give stability to a world where stability is needed desperately.
We rattle no sabers. We seek to intimidate no man.
But neither shall we be intimidated. And from American responsibilities, God willing, we shall never retreat. There is no safety. in such a course. Neither reason nor honor nor good faith commends such a course.
You of the VFW have been the strong right arm of many Commanders in Chief, of many Presidents. You have been a voice of conscience and responsibility for many years for many millions of Americans. I ask only that you hold straight to that course. You will help to lead your Nation and you will help to lead your world beyond danger to the peaceful day when free men know not fear, but when free men know fulfillment.
I will leave you now in that confident expectation.
But before I go, just let me close as I began, with a word about our great honored guest who strives daily to make this Nation more secure, and also a word about a resident of his State in his early manhood-our great Secretary of State.
There is something I would like to say about Dean Rusk. He is a good and a wise man. He has known the heat of the kitchen--as well as the television lights. The dignity that comes from the clay soil from which he sprang--he has known it long enough to know that good humor and great patience also play their part in history, too.
So, I will return home now to watch another television replay--I am going home to look at the "Dean Rusk Show."
That's the show, you know, that was a years in production. We had a great cast-but no plot.
We also had trouble picking the title. "Gunsmoke" had already been taken. We finally decided on "Shoot-Out at Capitol Hill."
Then we couldn't find a sponsor. They all said, "Sorry, quiz shows are dead." I saw Secretary Rusk tonight before I came over here. He looked different. I said, "Where have you been?" And you know-for the first time in 2 complete days the Secretary of State did not have an answer.
But you men of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who, in order to qualify for your membership, have had the answer.
You have Dick Russell's appreciation and Dean Rusk's gratitude and my thankfulness.
Thank you so much.
Note: The President spoke at 9:16 p.m. at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
131 - Letter to the Speaker of the House Urging Prompt Action on the Civil Rights Bill.
March 12, 1968
[Released March 12, 1968. Dated March 11, 1968]
Dear Mr. Speaker:
Today--by a vote of 71 to 20---the Senate took an historic step toward strengthening human rights in America.
Two years ago the House by a 259 to 157 vote on final passage sent to the Senate a civil rights measure which contained a fair housing provision.
Several provisions of the Senate bill will be familiar to the Members of the House-particularly the fair housing section, the title that gives new protection to persons exercising their individual rights, and provisions affecting those who contribute to civil disorder.
The fate of this bill now rests with the House of Representatives.
I deeply believe, Mr. Speaker, that passage of this legislation is more important today than ever before.
Prompt action by the House on this bill will be a signal
--to minority group Americans, that the path to peaceful progress is open and available to all who choose to walk it;
--to all Americans, that our national purpose is being served, and the requirements of our national conscience met, through lawful democratic processes;
--and to the world, that America is determined to achieve racial harmony and social justice for all her people.
To one man--the Negro veteran of Vietnam--the fair housing provision will have a special meaning. I do not need to tell you what he has done for our country. It is up to us--to all of us--to assure him the elemental rights in his own country for which he risked his life overseas. That man-and his race--are entitled to the justice this bill provides.
Mr. Speaker, I urge the Members of both parties in the House of Representatives to complete this work--vigorously and promptly. It will be nonpartisan recognition of justice and equality for all American citizens.
Sincerely,
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
128 - Remarks Upon Signing the National Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968.
March 12, 1968
Secretary Udall, Senator Randolph, Congressman Gray, Members of the Congress, interested citizens, ladies and gentlemen:
Each year more than 10 million people visit this Nation's Capital and some 2 million come here to the White House.
They arrive in a strange city. They have to make their way through very unfamiliar streets. If they can find a lot to park their car in, they then must cope with the public transportation system that has confused many a world traveler.
There is no central clearinghouse where a visitor can gather information about our many monuments, museums, and Government buildings. He must needlessly waste hours deciding what to see and determining when he can see it.
The tourist and the student are invited to Washington. Then they are told to go and fend for themselves.
It is as if we asked someone to come to our house to visit with us and then we told him to find the kitchen and fix his own dinner.
The bill that I am signing here will assure that in the future our visitors to Washington will at least be given a proper welcome.
Under the National Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968:
--A visitor center will be created in what is now known as Union Station. A new railway passenger terminal will be built nearby.
--A parking lot to hold 4,000 cars will be built adjacent to the Union Station.
--Low-cost public transportation will be available to take our visitors from the center to points along the Mall and the Capitol grounds.
--There will be a Capitol Visitor Center, right in the Capitol Building, where you can find out where to go, what time events take place, the points of history about the building and about our Congress. You will also be able to get books and pictures about the Capitol.
--An advisory commission, chaired by the distinguished Secretary of the Interior, will conduct a continuing review of the visitor's problems and the visitor's needs, so that we can keep our facilities up to date.
We are making a very special effort this year to try to attract foreign visitors to our country.
We hope that the visa requirements for foreign tourists can be cased. Hospitality cards will be issued which will entitle foreigners to very special discounts at hotels and Government-operated facilities. I hope many restaurants and other firms will join in this program.
Naturally, many of these foreign visitors are going to come here to our Capital-come to Washington.
And I think it is all the more important now, when all Americans will be opening their hearts and their homes to visitors from other lands, that the Nation's Capital should provide a very special welcome.
For Americans and foreigners alike, we want Washington to symbolize the best of our country--a city of beauty and warmth and hospitality.
For the fact that the Congress has brought me this legislation and for their presence here this morning, I express my appreciation.
Note: The President spoke at 10:36 a.m. in the Cabinet Room at the White House.
http://ncpedia.org/biography/patterson-rufus-lenoir-jr
NCpedia
Patterson, Rufus Lenoir, Jr.
by Ellen Barrier Neal, 1994
11 July 1872–11 Apr. 1943
Rufus Lenoir Patterson, Jr., inventor and businessman, was born in Salem, the son of lawyer, planter, and paper mill owner Rufus Lenoir (1830–79) and his second wife Mary Elizabeth Fries Patterson (1844–1927), the daughter of textile pioneer Francis Fries. He attended the Moravian Boys School and the Winston graded school, worked briefly for the Roanoke and Southern Railroad, and in 1889 enrolled at The University of North Carolina.
Patterson left the university after one year to work with William H. Kerr, an inventor of Concord, who manufactured a machine to produce tobacco bags. In 1891 Patterson traveled to England to introduce Kerr's machine and remained there two years to study machine design. After his return in 1893, he divided his time between Baltimore, Md., where Kerr had established his firm, and Durham, where Patterson was associated with the Golden Belt Manufacturing Company, the firm that produced and operated the Kerr bagging machines.
In 1893 Patterson organized the Automatic Packing and Labelling Company to develop his first invention, the Patterson Packer, a machine that automatically weighed, packed, stamped, and labeled smoking tobacco. This machine brought Patterson to the attention of James B. Duke of the American Tobacco Company. After viewing the Patterson Packer, Duke reportedly said, "Ding it, your machines are all right, but I also must have you." In 1898, at age twenty-six, Patterson joined the New York office of Duke's firm as supervisor of all its machinery, including his own packer. He became secretary of the company in 1900 and vice-president in charge of manufacturing in 1901.
In 1900 Patterson organized the American Machine and Foundry Company, a subsidiary of the American Tobacco Company, and in 1901 established two other corporations, the International Cigar Machinery Company and the Standard Tobacco Stemmer Company. When American Machine and Foundry became an independent corporation in 1912, Patterson remained president; he held that position until 1941, when he became chairman of the board of directors. By 1920 American Machine and Foundry and its subsidiaries produced must of the machinery used in the tobacco industry, including the automatic cigar maker developed by Patterson at a cost of $5 million. The company then diversified into other areas of automatic packaging, beginning with the standard bread wrapper in 1924. By 1935 Rufus Lenoir Patterson was one of the eight highest-paid executives in the country.
http://www.piasecki.com/helicopters_pv2.php
PIASECKI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
PIONEERS IN VERTICAL FLIGHT
PV-2
To reduce the development risks, a conventional tail rotor was chosen for anti-torque and yaw control. This machine, the PV-2, single seat, single rotor helicopter, was built as a technology demonstrator of several advanced concepts in the undeveloped VTOL field. The machine featured the first dynamically balanced rotor blades, a rigid tail rotor with a tension-torsion pitch change system, an overhead stick, and a full cyclic and collective rotor pitch control. The first flight was on 11 April 1943. Frank Piasecki was the test pilot, teaching himself to fly the PV-2 helicopter with only 14 hours of previous flying time in a fixed wing airplane. On 20 October 1943, he demonstrated the machine’s precise finger-tip control characteristics before military and commercial operators in Washington, D.C. It was the second successful helicopter to fly in the U.S.
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks to Reporters on Covert Action Procedural Reforms
August 7, 1987
The President. I'm gratified we meet today in the spirit of bipartisan cooperation and agreement about new procedures that govern the approval and notification to Congress concerning sensitive intelligence activities. I know the letter that I'm giving to each of you reflects serious work and intense work by you and my senior advisers, and I'm most grateful for your efforts.
The measure of agreement that's reflected in my letter demonstrates the vital importance that I attach to cooperation between the Congress and the executive branch in the intelligence area. And on this, I know we all agree. And I firmly believe that the new procedures we're putting in place will strengthen that cooperation and facilitate the work of your committee in fulfilling its important responsibilities. The procedures address legitimate areas of concern to the Congress and the Executive, and they have my full support. And so saying, I shall deliver the mail.
[At this point, the President handed letters to Senator David L. Boren, chairman, and Senator William S. Cohen, vice chairman, of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which expressed his support for the new procedures.]
Reporter. Does this mean you're going to notify of all covert actions before they take place, and on a faster basis than you have in the past?
The President. Well, they're going to have a press conference back up on the Hill there, and they'll respond there as to all this means.
Q. Well, is this an outgrowth of your big mistakes in the Iran scandal—in not notifying them about the weapons?
The President. Well, I haven't called them mistakes yet. [Laughter] But we have to depart.
Q. the need for Congress to pass any legislation?
The President. You were informed, I know, no questions. So, you'll have at them later on.
Note: The President spoke at 2:40 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953-1961
188 - Statement by the President Concerning the Second International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.
July 31, 1958
WE HAVE BEEN discussing here the progress being made on the plans for United States participation in the Second International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. It has been a stimulating account. I am proud that the United States has been so closely connected with this great project.
Since it was first realized that the atom could bring great benefits to mankind, the United States has persistently and continuously worked to turn this new resource from warlike to peaceful purposes. These efforts were born of a deep conviction that, along with every other nation of the world, we had a moral responsibility to do this.
We hope that it soon may be possible to dedicate the atom solely to peaceful pursuits and hasten the unlimited blessings it holds for all nations and all peoples. As the first nation to develop the fission process, world leadership in this great endeavor is imposed upon us.
The United Nations, acting on our proposal, undertook a program to further the peaceful uses of atomic energy throughout the world. The International Atomic Energy Agency and the organization of six Western European countries, known as Euratom, are first evidences of the successful development of this program.
The first Peaceful Uses Conference held in Geneva in 1955 under United Nations auspices resulted in significant advances along the entire front of nuclear science.
As we go into the Second Peaceful Uses Conference this September, we are encouraged by the results to date. We are determined to continue to make our full contribution along with other nations. The progress which our own scientists have made will be reported to the conference. Our latest discoveries will be added to the growing body of scientific literature in this vast new field. Our exhibits will give visual evidence of our progress. The scientific community of the world will gain much from the first-hand discussions and exchanges of information.
Let us all pray that Almighty God may decree the success of this cooperative effort for the welfare and happiness of all mankind.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1917/barkla-facts.html
Nobelprize.org
The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1917
Charles Glover Barkla
Charles Glover Barkla
Born: 7 June 1877, Widnes, United Kingdom
Died: 23 October 1944, Edinburgh, Scotland
Affiliation at the time of the award: Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements"
Field: atomic physics
https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~richards/earlyCTBThistory.html
Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
by E.S. Husebye and A.M. Dainty (eds.), from Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 836 pages, 1996.
On February 2, 1962, the US Atomic Energy Commission announced that earlier that day the USSR had apparently conducted an underground nuclear test. The test, widely reported to be the first underground Soviet nuclear explosion, was carried out in a generally aseismic area in Soviet Central Asia (East Kazakhstan), and had a yield estimated at 40 to 50 kilotons. The rapid detection and rapid identification of this test were applauded by proponents of the test ban
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tv.com
Star Trek Season 2 Episode 14
Wolf in The Fold
Aired Unknown Dec 22, 1967 on NBC
AIRED: 12/22/67
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John F. Kennedy
XXXV President of the United States: 1961 - 1963
303 - Remarks at the Presentation of the Distinguished Service Medal to Admiral Arleigh A. Burke.
July 26, 1961
Ladies and gentlemen, Admiral and Mrs. Burke, General Lemnitzer, Members of the Congress, Members of the Naval Establishment:
I want to welcome you all here to the White House, and also express appreciation that you have come to join us in paying honor to an American who wholly deserves this award and this tribute as he finishes a lifetime of service to the United States.
I have served with Admiral Burke in the Government as President--he is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--for only 6 months but I must say that in that period I have come to have the same opinion of him that my predecessors have had, and that is that I know of no American who is more devoted to his country, who is more willing to make any contribution that he can make to its welfare, and who more appropriately typifies the best qualities in the American serviceman.
So Admiral, I'm sure you realize that personally and speaking also as President, that your departure is greatly missed. We are fortunate to have as your successor Admiral Anderson, whom you recommended, but I do say that in the very difficult times that are ahead we will continue to count upon you as an ex officio member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I will therefore read this citation for the Distinguished Service Medal. This is not the most overwhelming honor we could pay the Admiral, as I find that he has two others--this is his third--but he deserves them all.
The citation says:
"The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Medal (Gold Star in lieu of Third Award) to Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, United States Navy, for service as set forth in the following citation:
"For exceptionally meritorious service to the Government of the United States while serving as Chief of Naval Operations and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from August 1955 to August 1961. In this demanding and exacting position, Admiral Burke has displayed the same superb leadership, the same vigor and outstanding professional competence, that marked his courageous and highly successful combat. operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
"With broad vision and an untiring devotion to duty, he has done much to increase the strength of United States naval forces, as well as to promote the cause of justice and order throughout the world. Admiral Burke's distinguished achievements on behalf of the Navy and his country, are in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service."
Note: The presentation ceremony was held in the Rose Garden at the White House.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
XXXII President of the United States: 1933-1945
203 - Proclamation 2068 - Christmas Amnesty Proclamation for Certain War-Time Offenders Who Have Completed Their Prison Sentences
December 23, 1933
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas, in and by the Constitution of the United States of America, it is provided that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment," and
Whereas, various persons have been from time to time convicted in the Courts of the United States of violations of certain statutes enacted during the war between the United States and the Imperial German Government and Imperial Austro-Hungarian Government, to wit:
Section 3 of Title 1 of the Act approved June 15, 1917, entitled "An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes" (40 Stat. 217); and said section as amended by the Act approved May 16, 1918 (40 Stat. 553); or of a conspiracy to violate the same;
Conspiracy to violate Section 5 of the Act approved on June 15, 1917, entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States" (40 Stat. 76); and said Section as amended by the Act approved August 31, 1918 (40 Stat. 955); and
Whereas, the emergency contemplated by the aforesaid statutes has long expired;
Now, Therefore, Be it known, that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, in consideration of the premises, divers other good and sufficient reasons me thereunto moving, do hereby declare and grant a full pardon to all persons who have heretofore been convicted of a violation of any of the foregoing statutory provisions or of a conspiracy to violate the same, and who have complied with the sentences imposed on them; provided, however, that such pardon shall not be construed to pardon such persons for any offenses other than those designated herein, whether committed prior or subsequently to the offenses herein designated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The White House,
December 23, 1933
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
XXXII President of the United States: 1933-1945
202 - Statement on the Christmas Amnesty Proclamation
December 23, 1933
DURING the World War, a large number of persons were convicted under the Espionage Act and the Selective Service Act of giving utterance to sentiments adverse to the prosecution of the War and to the enforcement of the draft. They have paid the penalty that the law imposed on them. The emergency that made it necessary to punish them has long expired. Fifteen years have elapsed since the end of the War.
Accordingly I have issued a Christmas Amnesty Proclamation, extending a full pardon to all persons who were convicted of such war-time offenses, and who have complied with the sentences imposed on them. The effect of this proclamation is to restore to such persons their full civil rights.
The benefit of the Proclamation extends to all persons who were convicted of violations of Section 3 of Title I of the Espionage Act or of a conspiracy to violate the same; or of a conspiracy to violate Section 5 of the Selective Service Act; provided that they carried out the terms of the sentences which the courts inflicted. The former statute relates to the publication of seditious literature and the making of seditious speeches; the latter provision covers conspiracy to obstruct or interfere with the enforcement of the draft.
The proclamation expressly provides that the pardon does not extend to any other offenses than those specifically enumerated, whether committed before or after such offenses.
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Serb who hijacked U.S. plane in 1979 dies
Self-declared anti-communist spent 18 years in federal prison
Associated Press
updated 11/11/2008 3:53:36 PM ET
BELGRADE, Serbia — Nikola Kavaja, who hijacked a U.S. passenger jet in 1979 with the intention of crashing it into Yugoslav Communist Party headquarters, has died.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/nyregion/09radonjic.html
The New York Times
Bosko Radonjic, Gambino Family Ally, Dies at 67
By DENNIS HEVESI APRIL 9, 2011
Bosko Radonjic, a Serbian nationalist émigré who participated in the bombing of a Yugoslavian diplomat’s home in suburban Chicago in 1975 and who later became an associate of the Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, died on March 31 in Belgrade, Serbia. He was 67.
He died after a brief illness, his family told Agence France-Presse.
Mr. Radonjic (pronounced rah-DON-yich) was one of six Serbians who were convicted or pleaded guilty in 1979 in the bombing of the Yugoslav consul’s home four years earlier, as well as a plot to bomb a Yugoslavian club in Chicago. Like the others, Mr. Radonjic was said to have been motivated by hatred for the Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito and his Communist government.
In a terrifying and bizarre twist to the case, on June 20, 1979, four days before his sentencing, the leader of the group, Nikola Kavaja, commandeered a jetliner just before it landed in Chicago from New York by threatening to blow it up with a homemade bomb. After freeing the other passengers and most of the crew members, Mr. Kavaja forced the remaining crew to fly back to New York, where he demanded and received another plane capable of flying him to Ireland.
There, for reasons only he knew, he surrendered to the Irish police. Mr. Kavaja, who served 20 years in prison, died in 2008.
Mr. Radonjic served three years in prison while his co-conspirators received sentences of 3 to 12 years.
Born in Uzice, Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia, on May 17, 1943, Mr. Radonjic came to the United States in 1970. His father, a teacher, had been executed by Tito’s partisans during World War II.
Information about survivors was not available.
After arriving in New York, Mr. Radonjic found work as a parking lot attendant in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan. He later managed to lease a parking lot on his own on West 49th Street, the first of several lots that he operated.
Upon his release from prison in 1982, Mr. Radonjic returned to Hell’s Kitchen and joined the Westies, a traditionally Irish-American gang.
But as more and more of the gang’s leaders went to prison in the late 1980s, he was able to exert increasing influence over its operations and form ties with the Gambino crime family.
After the ethnic conflicts and partition of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Mr. Radonjic returned to Belgrade, where he opened several bars and casinos and became a close associate of the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, whom the United Nations is currently prosecuting in the Hague on genocide charges.
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IMDb
The Twentieth Century (TV Series)
Churchill, Man of the Century (1957)
USA 20 October 1957
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IMDb
The Twentieth Century: Season 1, Episode 1
Churchill, Man of the Century (20 Oct. 1957)
TV Episode
Release Date: 20 October 1957 (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/releaseinfo
IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[Phoenix cockpit]
RIKER: How are you feeling?
COCHRANE: I've got a four-alarm hangover either from the whiskey or your laser beam, ...or both, ...but I'm ready to make history! Ha, ha, ha.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 3:45 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 29 March 2015
