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...Yale University Police Department spokesman Walter Northrop confirmed that Yale’s statistics follow the definition given by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report, in which larcenies are classified under the burglary category...
...Christian pitch won over Nancy Pitz, 56, a manager at Northrop Grumman. She liked the equipment at This Is It! Christian Fitness for Ladies in Pasadena, Md., and going there fit her schedule. But what really grabbed her were the King James Bibles and the wall that read, "And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men." A bulletin board in the lobby posts a prayer list with such intentions as "safe and healthy weight loss"; the sound system plays hymns mixed to an aerobic beat. The gym is "about...
Thomas Cavanagh was a Northrop Corp. employee with military secrets to sell. In search of a buyer, he called Soviet emissaries in the U.S., arranged a meeting and offered "Stealth" bomber technology for a piddling $25,000. Even for so little, his hosts were not about to accept. The FBI had intercepted his original call, and the men to whom he was hawking his wares were undercover FBI agents. He was arrested, convicted and sentenced to life...
...aspiring ace sits there--some might say preposterously--in this cavernous hangar in California, in the cockpit of a $13.5 million plane that will do everything but make coleslaw, and listens like a customer, the ejection detonator between his thighs. Northrop Corp. spent nearly $1 billion to develop the F-20, and has been trying for the past two years to persuade Washington to place an order. Unless the F-20 gets Uncle Sam's seal of approval, the bird won't fly with foreign buyers, for whom it was mainly designed in the first place. Northrop will soon...
...bomber; past General Dynamics and the F-16; past Fairchild Republic and its T-46 trainers; past the Army, testing Black Hawk helicopters; past McDonnell Douglas, at work on the F-15; and just beyond the Air Force and its antisatellite system; and comes to rest outside the Northrop hangar, wherein the Tigershark resides. Our innocent is not met by a sales rep; rather, Roy Martin, a test pilot, blond and angular and wearing a jumpsuit crosshatched by so many zippered pockets that he could carry a disassembled jeep around in his coveralls, takes the shopper...