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5 unusual facts about Walter B. LaBerge


Walter B. LaBerge

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated LaBerge as United States Under Secretary of the Army and he subsequently held this office from July 27, 1977 until February 28, 1980.

He also held several academic appointments, including Senior Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Texas at Austin; visiting professor at the Defense Systems Management College at the Defense Acquisition University in Fort Belvoir, Virginia; and Visiting Professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

He was educated at the University of Notre Dame, receiving a degree in Naval Science in 1944.

In 1957, LaBerge moved to Philco as Director of Engineering at its Western Development Laboratories in Palo Alto, California.

Upon leaving the United States Department of Defense in 1981, LaBerge became an executive at Lockheed, serving as corporate vice president of the Lockheed Missile and Space Company in Sunnyvale, California from 1981 to 1985, and then as Lockheed's Vice President of Advanced Planning at Calabasas, California from 1985 to 1989.


Edward T. King

Rosario Bourdon, each of whom have well over 3000 entries in EDVR, and Walter B. Rogers and Josef Pasternack, each with around 2000 entries in EDVR.

Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) read the redacted section after a letter-writing campaign, and say that this section details high-level involvement by the Saudi Arabian embassy in receiving the hijackers on US soil, arranging for visas and other paperwork.

Life Begins at Forty

Life Begins at Forty is a 1932 American self-help book by Walter B. Pitkin.

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Walter B. Gibson, co-creator/writer of The Shadow pulp novels, was fired when he asked for a raise in 1946, and then became head writer for the Nick Carter radio series.

Walter B. Beals

He began law studies under an attorney’s supervision, but ill health prompted his move to Bellingham, Washington.

Promoted to lieutenant colonel and decorated with the Legion of Honour by France, he became one of the founders of the American Legion.

Walter B. Chambers

His brother Robert W. Chambers, born 1865, was a noted artist, illustrator and writer.

Walter B. Gibson

In addition, Gibson is the protagonist, along with Orson Welles, in a historical mystery by Max Allan Collins, The War of the Worlds Murder, published by Berkley Books in 2005.

Walter B. Gibson bibliography

This is a complete list of books by Walter B. Gibson published during his lifetime and after his death.

Walter B. Rogers

Their most successful recordings included "The Merry Widow Waltz" (from The Merry Widow, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1907), "The Glow-Worm" (from Paul Lincke's operetta Lysistrata, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1908), and "The Yama Yama Man" (from The Three Twins, performed by Ada Jones and the Victor Light Opera Co., 1909).

Walter B. Slocombe

Slocombe received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1963, where he received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.

Woodbury Glacier

Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Walter B. Woodbury (1834–1885), English pioneer of photomechanical printing in 1865 and of serial film cameras for use in balloons and kites in 1877.

Xbox One

Subsequent to the announcement of Xbox One, but prior to Microsoft's policy reversal, U.S. Representatives Mike Capuano and Walter Jones proposed and filed the We Are Watching You Act; the act would require "video service operators" to inform users on how personal data is collected and used, require that users explicitly opt-in to data collection, provide an on-screen notification when data is being collected, and to provide identical service for those who opt-out.

Yellow Peril

It is clearly in the same line as the contemporaneous works of Philip José Farmer, "updating" Rohmer the way Farmer updated Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lester Dent, and Walter B. Gibson.


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