Published In:
Ann Arbor News, July 16, 1969
Caption:
"Today's launching of the Apollo 11 for its historic flight to the moon stirred special interest at Bendix Aerospace Systems Division this morning where staff members paused to watch television as the countdown neared the scheduled liftoff time. The division has developed scientific instrument packages which will be left on the lunar surface by the astronauts. Twenty-two members of the division's staff are at Cape Kennedy or Houston following the flight's progress."

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 24, 1964
Caption:
One of yesteryear's great players in the world of tennis spent a day in Ann Arbor last weekend. Debonaire Jean Rene Lacoste (left), the Frenchman who rose to fame on the courts of the 1920s, was in town to visit the Bendix Corp. Lacoste won the United States men's singles championship in 1926, defeating Jean Borotra in the final match, and he beat the great Bill Tilden to win the title again in 1927. He was British men's singles champion in 1925, after outplaying Henri Cochet. Lacoste is head of the Air Equipment Co. in France and he now lives outside Paris. he brought a new steel tennis racket to the United States to be tested. here, he conferred with Dr. O. Lyle Tiffany, chief scientist at the Bendix Systems Division about his interests in the space and meteorology programs with which his company is working. Lacoste's son, Michel, is accompanying him on the trip.