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...This year Austria's (and the world's) largest skimaker, Josef Fischer, expects to produce 700,000 pairs of skis, a tenfold increase since 1951. Its major competitors are the firms of Franz Kneissl, which makes 300,000 pairs, Anton Arnsteiner (280,000) and Alois Rohr-moser...
...idea is also attractive because it has already shown glimmerings of success in some cases. The Aerospace Association's President Harr estimates that the industry now handles $2.5 billion worth of non-aerospace business annually, including urban studies, pollution control and housing. For example, the Rohr Corp., a subcontractor of airplane parts, two years ago began studying rail-transit problems and has since won a profitable, $66.7 million contract to construct cars for San Francisco's new rapid-transit system. Railroads of all kinds are the projects most often mentioned as possible conversion targets for the aerospace industry. Says...
Military chaplains themselves answer that in practice they are freer than many civilian ministers, who must often answer to hostile congregations if they take a radical stand on a matter of theology or politics. Navy Chaplain John A. Rohr argues that in a world where peace is still unattainable the fact of war's existence "must be borne even as we strive to abolish it." Christianity, he says, needs both kinds of ministers-the civilian picketing for peace and the chaplain serving "those brave young men who bear so disproportionate a burden of the sins of the world...
...brightest new man in camp is catcher Gene Oliver, who hit a three run homer to win the first intra-squad game. Pitcher Billy Rohr, who astounded the baseball world last spring with a one-hitter his first time out in the major leagues, is back trying to conquer the control problem that sent him to the minors. And starting first-baseman George Scott is once again struggling to work off winter weight...
Died. Frederick H. Rohr, 69, founder and chairman of Rohr Corp., leading U.S. aircraft subcontractor, a mechanic who built and installed all the metalwork on Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, in 1940 formed a company that today grosses $128 million a year making parts for jet aircraft; following a stroke; in San Diego, Calif...