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...Boeing VC-137C fan jetliner. The White House flatly denies rumors that it is equipped with a swimming pool and a sandbox. But it has almost everything else, including five lavatories, two galleys, three sitting rooms, and $2,000,000 worth of secret electronic gear that provides, among other things, instant communication with the White House. It can go 7,000 miles without refueling, stay aloft 13¼ hours, average 550 to 600 m.p.h...
...Garrett Corp., the hostility of space is an industrial bonanza. Since it pressurized the cabins of World War II's high-flying B-29 bombers, Garrett has become the U.S.'s foremost specialist in keeping men alive in the yonder beyond their familiar surroundings. Garrett supplies oxygen gear for the Mercury astronauts, and is designing the breathing systems and environmental controls that will see U.S. Apollo crewmen to the moon...
This leaves the most important clash of the day, at Princeton. The game will undoubtedly be a high scoring contest between the two best backfields in the League. Princeton has three of them, Harvard two, but if the Crimson gets in gear fast enough the parties at the Clubs will be unhappy affairs...
...found," said Rickover, "that management is reluctant to depart from outdated practices; that it is not informed of what is actually going on in the plant; that it fails to provide the informed and strong leadership necessary to bring about improvements in engineering and production." Not just the complicated gear but also the conventional components of nuclear plants are frequently flawed by faulty welding and casting due to ineffective quality control and failure to follow specifications, Rickover reported. "Delivery and performance of these conventional items have been less reliable than of the nuclear reactors themselves...
Studebaker launched its drive to diversify in 1959, but corporate attention was diverted from the task by the encouraging success of the early Larks. Egbert put the program back in gear in 1961 and in the last 20 months has added five companies to a stable of subsidiaries that now includes manufacturers of refrigerators, freezers, electric generators, oil additives and superchargers. Today auto sales account for 60% of Studebaker's gross, v. 79% only seven months...