Quote:A Russian hockey player has died after being hit in the head with a puck during a game, team and league officials said Tuesday.
Timur Faizutdinov, a 19-year-old defenseman for Dynamo St. Petersburg’s junior team, was struck Friday during a Junior Hockey League playoff game against Loko Yaroslavl in Yaroslavl.
Faizutdinov was hit up high near his temple, where he immediately collapsed onto the ice with a team doctor rushing to his aid.
Faizutdinov was rushed to a hospital in serious condition and doctors “fought for his life for three days,” but were unable to save him, team officials said in a statement Tuesday.
Quote:Active in civic affairs, Steve Jr. served on six presidential commissions for three U.S. presidents.
Steve Jr. also contributed his wisdom in advisory roles at the California Institute of Technology, Purdue, MIT, and Stanford and its Hoover Institution. A life-long Boy Scout, he achieved Eagle rank in 1940 and has been recognized by the Boy Scouts of America with both the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award and the Silver Buffalo Award. He attended the 2013 National Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve with 40,000 other scouts.
From 1948 to 1960, he worked his way up the Bechtel ladder from field engineer to chairman and CEO. Under his leadership, Bechtel’s sales improved eleven-fold, its workforce grew five-fold, and the number of major projects increased from 18 to 119. Although Bechtel had a proud history of megaprojects in the United States, such as the Hoover Dam and San Francisco Bay Bridge caisson, Steve Jr. extended the firm’s footprint around the world and took on efforts of increasing technical sophistication. Beyond geographic expansion and engineering excellence, Steve Jr. used his personal values to create a corporate culture based on honesty, merit, teamwork, and fair dealing.
Steve Jr. retired as CEO at age 65 in 1990.
"Enjoy your work and show your enthusiasm for it. It will be infectious to those around you."
--Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.
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Quote:A collateral descendant of Dr. Samuel Mudd, the Maryland physician who set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Roger Mudd was born and raised in Washington, D.C., where his father was a mapmaker for the U.S. Geological Survey and his mother was a nurse. After the Army, he was a classmate of Tom Wolfe's at Washington and Lee University and earned a master's degree in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....
Quote:A collateral descendant of Dr. Samuel Mudd, the Maryland physician who set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Roger Mudd was born and raised in Washington, D.C., where his father was a mapmaker for the U.S. Geological Survey and his mother was a nurse. After the Army, he was a classmate of Tom Wolfe's at Washington and Lee University and earned a master's degree in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....
Had he been chosen by CBS over the highly partisan Dan Rather, or later by NBC over Tom Brokaw, the future integrity and reliability of network news might have been vastly different.
Quote:A collateral descendant of Dr. Samuel Mudd, the Maryland physician who set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Roger Mudd was born and raised in Washington, D.C., where his father was a mapmaker for the U.S. Geological Survey and his mother was a nurse. After the Army, he was a classmate of Tom Wolfe's at Washington and Lee University and earned a master's degree in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....
Had he been chosen by CBS over the highly partisan Dan Rather, or later by NBC over Tom Brokaw, the future integrity and reliability of network news might have been vastly different.
Owl, networks got what they wanted. Mudd's integrity was not part of their recipe.
Quote:Jessica Walter, who played the hilariously incisive matriarch Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development, died in her sleep Wednesday in New York City. She was 80 years old.