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Competing with foreign craftsmen, many a U.S. builder cut his own prices. Lone Star lightened the weight of its best-selling 14-ft. Malibu outboard by 10%, lightened the price by $100, down to $525. Enginemakers also trimmed prices and weight, switched to aluminum and fiber glass to get more horsepower per pound. McCulloch Corp., the No. 3 outboard-motor maker (after Outboard Marine and Kiekhaefer) cut prices of its Scott motors as much as 10%. Kiekhaefer lopped about 5% off two of its Mercury motor prices...
Such rehabilitation is a major aim of the prison press-and most wardens are all for it. Says Menard's Warden Ross V. Randolph: "The prison publication is a morale builder, a source of enlightenment, and a medium to educate the public-on the fact that prisoners are people." For such a purpose, the wardens are inclined to suffer occasional lapses in ethical journalism-such as convicts who send messages to their lady friends outside under the guise of news items...
Died. Artur Rodzinski, 64, master builder of symphony orchestras; of a heart ailment; in Boston. Born on Yugoslavia's Dalmatian coast, Rodzinski was the son of a Polish surgeon in the Austrian army. Holder of a doctorate in law from the University of Vienna, he preferred music, came to the U.S. in 1925 on the invitation of Leopold Stokowski. His talent for developing orchestras, which even exceeded his art as a conductor, brought prestigious results in Los Angeles, Cleveland and New York, where Rodzinski took over the listless Philharmonic in 1943. Considering himself hamstrung by management, he stormily quit...
Radical Boat Design. Higgins, Inc., New Orleans boat builder (World War II PT-boats), demonstrated a new 52-ft.-10½-in.-long aluminum boat that can carry 30 passengers at 40 m.p.h. in rough waters. The boat's hull has a series of protruding edges angled to reduce water resistance and cushion pounding. Two 500-h.p. gas turbine engines power the craft. Price: about...
...University-favored site for a Cambridge-Harvard parking facility was probably obviated yesterday, when it was stated that John Briston Sullivan, builder and realtor, will definitely take up his option to build a motel on the Brattle Square parking lot, adjacent to the MTA car yards...