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Obvious Value. The biggest beneficiaries of the sales surge are the makers of jet turbines, which are a compact source for stand-by power, particularly for such large needs as those of cities and airports. Manufacturers have been finding increasing nonaviation uses for jet engines (including shipboard power, heating plants and railroad trains), are eagerly exploiting the power market. The jets' value has become obvious: Holyoke, Mass., switched on its Pratt & Whitney stand-by jet when the blackout hit, two minutes later had full power. Hartford, Conn., also stayed aglow with emergency jet power. A week after the blackout...
...Seattle, 15 restaurants have thus managed to reduce costs and arrange for immediate payments from cooperating banks, have even got 94 other merchants to join them. The major transatlantic steamship lines are thinking of issuing a card, something like the air-travel card, that would cover passage and shipboard purchases. Oil companies, which have offered oil and gas on credit for years, are now offering a whole new line of credit possibilities. Mobil cards can be used for car repairs and motel bills, American Oil cards for hotel, motel and restaurant bills, Esso cards for life insurance...
...foolish brother and is promptly widowed. En route to London, she outwits a dashing highwayman (Richard Johnson) and meets her husband-to-be, George Sanders, who steals the show as a passionate Puritan debilitated by the labors of love. The comedy reaches a peak of unbuttoned ribaldry in a shipboard rendezvous between Moll and her beloved highwayman, interrupted abed by the bandit's aide-de-camp (Leo McKern), who keeps tumbling upon them via doors and portholes and through the woodwork...
...University of the Seven Seas is a school that really gets around. Last week its shipboard campus was in San Francisco after a 110-day, 22,000-mile "semester cruise" around the world with 270 students and 45 faculty members. Its accreditation, the university admits, remains "tentative," and its course credits are refused for transfer by most other U.S. universities. Students do not seem to care. The experience of cruising on the university's chartered Holland-America liner Seven Seas is "worth it, and the loss of credits is not sufficient reason to stay at home," says...
...make it to the Caribbean for Christmas, and few of the lady shoppers had the necessary funds. Still, stores across the U.S. last week were piled high with shifts to go wading in, slacks for strolling sandy beaches, blouses for leaning on foreign balustrades, and ball gowns to have shipboard romances in. Most abundant of all were the bathing suits...