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Seldom has a company boasted so many suitors in such quick succession as Celotex Corp., a Chicago manufacturer of building supplies. It was his ardent pursuit of Celotex that brought about the downfall of the "boy wonder" financier, Eddy Gilbert (TIME, June 22). No sooner had Gilbert fled to Brazil...
So Many Ifs. In winning, Mosbacher showed the kind of daring that would be foolhardy in another sailor. At one point he drove Weatherly through an opponent's windless lee in a maneuver about as difficult, wrote one reporter, "as driving a golf ball through a wall." But sailors...
Before attempting lunar orbital rendezvous, U.S. astronauts will have to make many practice steps. First will come rendezvous in earth orbit, the crewmen becoming proficient at bringing their satellite capsules together with help from the earth below. Then a spaceship will voyage to the moon, park itself for a while...
According to scuttlebutt in the aviation industry, TWA and Pan Am have conceived a technique for finessing Hughes which seems a bit too clever. Heart of this maneuver would be to have the smaller TWA (net worth: $74 million) technically acquire Pan Am (net worth: $135 million). In fact. Juan...
He could not do it. Explained a Mercury official: "That thing is wobbling up there, and it's hard as hell to hold it within reasonable tolerances for such a delicate maneuver." When the scheduled instant came for the firing of the retrorockets over California. Carpenter apparently had the...