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Thresher's departure caused little excitement around the shipyard. Behind her were nine months of overhaul and modernization. New electronic and sonar gear had been installed. To put in the intricate equipment, several holes had been cut in the boat's hull-the largest was a yard square, to make way for an improved garbage ejector...
Tink Gunnoe's passing moved the Crimson attack into high gear in the second half yesterday afternoon as the varsity lacrosse team defeated previously unbeaten Brown, 10-4, at the Business School field...
...Sizes. This year's amusement is already in high gear. Back to Sebring came the Ferraris, eleven of them, hidden away in an airport hangar, where brown-coveralled mechanics tinkered lovingly with valves and fuel pumps. They came in all shapes and sizes, from a twelve-cylinder, 420-h.p. experimental car to a 340-h.p. gran turismo, a first cousin of the one that Desi Arnaz tools around Hollywood. Behind these wheels was an international Who's Who of racing: Scotland's Innes Ireland, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez, the U.S.'s Roger Penske, Britain...
Trying to help themselves, textile men are stepping up their switch to synthetics, spent $620 million on new plant and gear last year-up more than 100% since the low year of 1958. Among the many research projects, 150-year-old J.P. Stevens & Co. is working with papermakers to develop disposable clothing, and Deering-Milliken is reportedly experimenting with a process to manufacture textiles by pressing bits of fiber together instead of weaving them. But the industry cannot prosper as it should until some sense is brought into the pricing of its raw materials, which account...
...AUTOMATION. The publishers agreed in principle to share with the printers part of the savings they will effect by introducing automatic typesetting equipment for stock market tables. The publishers thus established their right to bring more automated gear into their shops, and the printers reluctantly agreed that an arbitrator may be called in to determine their share of the benefits from the in creased productivity...