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...Engineer Stan Soderberg, 55, who has spent his adult life caring for the big plane. A parachute rigger fresh out of the Navy, he signed on with Hughes at 21, in 1946. "We ran the controls every other week, hydraulics one week and electrical the next." Soderberg is a lean, intense fellow who wears an airman's jumpsuit. He saw the plane's only flight, on Nov. 2, 1947, when Hughes lifted it off the water of Long Beach Harbor and flew it at a height of 70 ft. for about a mile. Hughes had announced he would...
During the lean years of the 1970s many financially strapped states and depressed older cities were hard put to find money either for maintenance or for new construction. With teachers, welfare recipients, garbage collectors and senior citizens all expecting higher salaries or more services, government priorities tipped toward meeting social demands. Since 1965, the percentage of the U.S.'s gross national product devoted to investment in public works has dropped from 3.6% to 1.7%, a 52.8% decline. Like a pensioner gradually spending his lifetime's savings the U.S. is living off its public capital and little by little...
Yesterday the intimidating crowd of 300 and the lean crew-cutted opponents served as reminder of that past confrontation. Only the final result was different...far different...
After Harvard's wrestlers suffered through a disappointing performance at the Eastern Championships at Princeton last weekend, the top probably seemed to be very far away. Indeed. But don't automatically stigmatize this year's team with the lean records of its predecessors, because its future looks very bright. Apparently, Harvard wrestling has been stagnating for about a decade, but it has finally come out of the smoke. Harvard wrestling has arrived...
...liberal arts college in Lewiston, Me. Andrews' summer savings and the $35 a week he earns as a lifeguard at the college make little dent in the $7,500 tuition and board. Says he: "Cutting financial aid for students is not cutting fat, it's cutting lean...