Word: lighters
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Lear Inc.'s F-5 autopilot is much lighter (weight, less than 55 lbs.) than its predecessors, and so small (volume, 1 cu. ft.) that its parts have to be assembled by watchmakers' methods. When the plane is once in the air, the pilot can point it on its compass heading, turn on the autopilot, and relax as far as flying is concerned...
Thompson, however, did not handle the case today; Assistant District Attorney Ephrim Martin appeared to ask for a $200 fine. Judge Thomas Dowd decided on a lighter sentence. He told the prosecution that "something should be done to restrain these impetuous Harvard students," but that he felt the minimum fine would be enough...
...offered surplus warships to several Latin American countries at about 10% of their original price, plus the cost of reconditioning. Others in the line for warships bargains: Brazil (two heavy cruisers and some destroyer escorts), Argentine (two heavy cruisers), Peru (three destroyer escorts), Venezuela and Colombia (lighter craft...
Essentially, the difference between the two clubs is that the Harvard organization devotes itself to works of musical art and a limited concert tour; the Yales, Towever, avoid an overdose of the classical works, concentrate on the lighter numbers, and go on long concert tours that receive great applause both here and abroad. Also, Yale has a very expensive publicity program--contrary to the Crimson policy...
Once subsidized by the Habsburgs but now granted about $1,000,000 a year by the Austrian government, the company performs every night for ten months a year in two houses: major productions in the Theater an der Wien, lighter works such as The Gypsy Baron at the Volksoper in the U.S. zone. A good part of the company puts in an additional five weeks at the Salzburg Festival. Such continuous performing is one good reason for the high sheen of the company's ensemble...