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...White. 64, who succeeded tough Tom Girdler as Republic's operating boss last June: Republic's new expansion, launched only two years after a 17% capacity increase, is "based squarely on careful estimates of better living for more Americans. We are going to take as big a bite of the future...
Vital Statistics: Born at Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, on June 18, 1896. Tall, wiry and weatherbeaten, with thin, greying hair and the jaunty stride of a cadet, De Latour has a courtly and dignified old-army manner, develops a sharp bite when things need changing. Married to a soldier's daughter, he has eight children: seven daughters and a son, who was born five months...
...legs are strapped together above and below the knees; his wrists are lashed to the strap above his knees. A chest strap hauls him so tightly against the seat back that all breathing motion is confined to his diaphragm. A rubber bite block (equipped with a recording accelerometer) is slipped between his teeth; a helmet visor is latched down in front of his face; a cord is placed in one hand, ready to trigger a movie camera aimed at his face. Then sled and rider are left alone; all hands retire to the safety of the control building or smaller...
...Scratch, Bite, Claw. The penny has its obverse, and the other side of Frankie can be a shining thing. He has a Janizary's loyalty for his few close friends. Says one: "It's sort of wonderful but frightening, like having a pet cheetah." Says Don Maguire: "You"can call him any hour of the night and tell him you've got the flu, and he will bring you minestrone." When Judy Garland was in a Boston sanitarium, Sinatra sent her flowers every day for a year, and once sent a chartered plane full of her friends...
Getting a Bite-Tires hold traction during acceleration...