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...three units joined together. The forward unit-the command center-will house the three-man crew. The middle unit will be the service com ponent, providing oxygen and electricity and containing an auxiliary booster rocket for the take-off from the moon. The end unit will house the landing gear and decelerating rockets to lower the craft to a gentle moon landing...
...Saltwater barnacles and marine growth are the bane of boat owners, particularly in the offseason, when the boat is rarely used. "Boatbath," a kind of floating "wet dock," is designed to save the owner the expense of hauling out or the chore of scrubbing the boat bottom using diving gear. Manufactured by Boatbath, Inc. and made of polyvinyl chloride, Boatbath comes in sizes ranging from 24 ft. up to 40 ft., is priced from $150 to $295. The boat is floated into the Boatbath (which, in turn, floats like a huge bathtub, with its edge at the water...
...growth of automation is also hard on smaller businessmen: most of them cannot afford to buy automated gear, but they must buck the steadily lower production costs-and selling prices-of the larger operators who can. To copper their bets against gyrations in consumer demands, bigger companies are diversifying into retail areas that have long been dominated by smaller dealers, e.g., mail-order houses have begun to sell prescription drugs, supermarkets are selling hardware and garden supplies. And the increase of cut-rate imports hurts smaller, single-product businessmen more than those who market a broad line...
...Firearms Act. But others, like the San Diego Minutemen, stress survival. Says San Diego Photographer William F. Colley, 39, under whose leadership 2,900 California Minutemen have buried medicine, supplies and 10,000 rounds of ammunition up and down the state: "We hope we never have to use that gear up in the mountains. But it's not hurting us to put it there. And if we ever do need it, we'll be better off than those folks buried under radioactive ash in their concrete coffins...
Aerojet-General Corp., a subsidiary of General Tire & Rubber Co., builds solid-and liquid-fueled rocket engines for a host of missiles. It also produces infra-red sensors and missile support gear. 1960 sales: $425 million...