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DIED. Leroy R. Grumman, 87, self-assured, no-frills mechanical engineer and aeronautical designer who turned his Long Island-based aircraft-repair shop, started in 1929 with $32,000, into one of the country's largest defense contractors (1981 sales: $1.95 billion); in Manhasset, N.Y. During World War II Grumman Hellcats, Wildcats and Avengers chalked up 60% of the enemy kills on the Pacific front. Grumman's company was working on the lunar excursion module when, in 1966, diabetic and almost blind, the avid ex-pilot retired as board chairman...
...gifted negotiator who helped mediate the release of the 52 American hostages from Iran early last year, and eight other senior Algerian officials were en route to Tehran to try to end the war that has racked Iran and Iraq for 19 months. But as Benyahia's Grumman Gulfstream II executive jet last week flew near the point where the borders of Turkey, Iran and Iraq meet, it was apparently attacked and shot down. Everyone aboard the plane was killed...
...Grumman-built Prowler dropped in for touchdown, the Nimitz's landing signal officer, in charge of directing aircraft approaches, saw that it was too high and swinging dangerously leftward-and then too far right. By radio he ordered the pilot to gun his engines and fly clear of the deck, a routine procedure for aborted landings. But Marine Lieut. Steven E. White, 27, did not-perhaps could not-obey. His plane skidded at 145 m.p.h. onto the flight deck past the last of the arresting cables and caromed some 500 ft., its right wing lopping chunks off parked jets...
...Grumman began dispatching repair crews throughout the country. New York had to lease 150 old buses from Washington. Chicago replaced 205 Flxibles with 100 old school buses. In Houston, where only about 275 of 475 Flxibles work on a given day, route expansion had to be halted. The prognosis is not encouraging. Grumman is repairing the A-frame by welding more than 200 lbs. of steel plates to the undercarriage. In New York last week, the first of the repaired Flxibles cracked again during stress tests. The repair process, once it is perfected, will take 36 hours. Grumman...
...mainstay of public transportation. Notes a Chicago transit manager: "They're reliable and pretty much all the bugs were out of them." Other cities, including Atlanta, Seattle, Louisville and Los Angeles, are turning to foreign-made buses such as the West German M.A.N. and the Japanese Hino. Grumman, however, is standing by its bus of the future and doubling the original warranty to six years and 300,000 miles. That warranty, says a company spokesman, "will qualify us for the Guinness Book of World Records. "So will the record of breakdowns...