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...thus provide the proper torque to move a car's wheels directly. Rotary engines are smaller, peppier and potentially cheaper to build than conventional reciprocating models, and have only six major points of wear, v. 100 in a conventional engine. The most persistent bug, ever since Inventor Felix Wankel (pronounced Van-kel) introduced his first complete model in 1957, has been a tendency for the rotor tips to wear down too quickly. That problem apparently has been solved with modern metal-coating processes, but the rotary engine still has at least one major disadvantage. It uses about 10% more...
...FELIX WELNER...
Died. Admiral Felix Stump, 77, former commander of the Pacific Fleet; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. A brusque, no-nonsense Annapolis man, Stump was skipper of a seaplane tender at the start of World War II. He was soon given a carrier command and then led the U.S. Navy carrier task force during the battle of Leyte Gulf. As chief of the Pacific Fleet (1953-58), Stump was responsible for maintaining the nation's military ties with Asian allies...
Died. Dr. Felix Marti-Ibanez, 60, psychiatrist and medical-journal publisher; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A prominent public-health official in Spain during the '30s, Marti-Ibanez fled the country after the Civil War and immigrated to the U.S. In 1950 he founded M.D. Publications, Inc., parent company for a variety of medical publications (Antibiotics and Chemotherapy, Antibiotic Medicine...
...FELIX G. ROHATYN...