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Died. Waddill Catchings, 88, Wall Street financier and spectacular loser in the 1929 crash; of a kidney infection; in Pompano Beach, Fla. During the market madness of the 1920s, Catchings rose from a clerk to president of investment bankers Goldman, Sachs & Co., sat on the boards of 29 companies, and in 1928 launched Goldman Sachs Trading Corp.-a mutual fund which cost its holders close to $300 million when the price plummeted from $232 to $1.75 per share. Catchings resigned, later headed Muzak Corp. and retired last year as president of Concord Fund...
...which wiped out foot-and-mouth disease in the 1920s by a massive extermination program, has stayed clean since then by prohibiting imports of meat and livestock from all diseased areas. Only 14 other countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada and a few islands, are also free of the infection. The Soviet Union is now also undergoing a plague of foot-and-mouth disease, which Eastern Europeans fear may spread to their flocks. Some other countries, notably France and Germany, have kept the disease within bearable limits by vaccination...
...forger's scent, Noble made tests to determine the specific gravity of the horse, found it was too low for solid bronze but about right if the statue had a sand core, held in place by iron wire and tacks-which is how French bronze statues in the 1920s were cast. Ordinary X-ray equipment would not penetrate deeply enough to show the interior of the sculpture. But on Sept. 15, Noble, using equipment developed to inspect the six-inch-thick steel hulls of nuclear submarines, was able to have a gamma-ray shadowgraph made. "They held...
...golf clubs for Christmas-clubs with aluminum shafts. Like the steel tennis racket, the aluminum-shafted golf club is being touted as a breakthrough of science. For 15 years, club manufacturers have been trying unsuccessfully to improve on the now-familiar stepped steel shafts that replaced hickory in the 1920s. Fiber-glass shafts, for instance, are whippier than steel, but their extreme flexibility only tends to exaggerate flaws in a golfer's swing. Aluminum is more rigid than fiber glass, and lighter than steel. The lighter shaft allows manufacturers to put more weight into the club head. The result...
...most liberating designs was a simple knit tank suit with no inner construction. It came at a time when women were bathing in suits so full of stays and gussets that they practically stood up by themselves. "Just a revival of swim suits that were worn in the 1920s," he says today, but his 1954 suit, and those that came later have made Gernreich the most famous bathing-suit designer in the field...