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...combatting the boll weevil and other crop-destroying insects by sterilizing male insects in laboratories, then releasing them in the fields to compete with other males for the available females. The U.S., says an Agriculture Department publication, is "in the foothills of technical progress in agriculture-not at the peak...
Designed by Architect Welton Becket (who has worked on the new airports expansion projects at Los Angeles and San Francisco), McCarran Field's 38,850 sq. ft. hexagonal waiting building consists of three identical sweeps of vaulted concrete like wings, arching from the ground to a 45-ft. peak, and illuminated by vast areas of tinted glass "to portray the beauty and grace of soaring flight and the simplicity and endlessness of space. From the moment the passenger enters the winglike ticketing building to the time he leaves the spacious, vaulted terminal with its feeling of motion, he will...
...speedup was to get the vaccines into doctors' hypodermic syringes in time for the March-through-May period when measles outbreaks come to a peak...
Shift & Run. Fortunately for Ford, McNamara's methods also left it operating at peak efficiency and able to move quickly to correct its products' weaknesses. Racing is designed to bring the speed worshipers back to Ford; the 1964 T-Birds, Falcons and Comets will boast drastic styling changes to attract lovers of change. Both the Ford and Lincoln-Mercury divisions are paying dealers rebates of from $75 to $165 per car for every sale over set quotas. "We're almost through shifting gears," says a top Ford official. "We're going to give...
...Some complain that the result is nothing more (or less) than an Ivy League hotel. But it seems to work. When the Princeton Club sold its rambling mansion on Park Avenue and 39th Street three years ago for $2.300,000, membership had slipped down to 3,100 (from a peak 4,000 in 1955). Today it has jumped to a record 4,800, and the applications are pouring in, though the dues have been raised from $90 to $150 a year (as of April...