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...critical bogey on the 16th when his six-iron flew the green. Vik's ball came to rest draped under a plant root, twined by branches, behind a mound. The whole shot should have been contracted out to a capable excavation company. Vik resorted to a wedge, lacking a steam shovel, and the ball appeared with about a pound of mixed solids, plopping down 20 feet from...
...steam generators be successfully combined with jet aircraft engines and high-rise elevators? Last week United Technologies Corp., the Hartford, Conn., aerospace conglomerate, ventured half a billion dollars to find out. The company declared its intention to buy up a11 12.6 million shares of Babcock & Wilcox Co., a leading New York-based manufacturer of coal-and nuclear-powered generators, for $42 a share in cash. The acquisition would unite two companies whose revenues last year totaled almost $7 billion...
Other analysts, however, doubt that United has anything much to offer B&W stockholders except cash-and they think that Gray is not offering enough of that. United cannot supply any expertise in steam generating; Gray has promised to keep the present management, and Wall Streeters say he would just about have to. Though United's bid of $42 a share is $8 more than the stock was selling for just before the offer was announced, analysts at Kidder, Peabody & Co. think the stock should be worth about $48 a share to United. Whether Gray will eventually go higher...
...mixture of animals, and we are 90% animals today, which is not a very pleasant thought but it is a fact. Passions belong only to animals, and if human material is superior, then we have to control passions, which should be used for proper purposes, just as steam has to be utilized for energy, not for scalding people. Government will have to set an example in its own actions. You see, to make people fearless is more a function of government than of anything else, because people are afraid of government more than any other agency. And you have...
Buildings are mostly heated by a central supply system that feeds them steam through underground lines. The main fuel in Russia is-weep, amerikantsy-natural gas, piped from Soviet Central Asia and Siberia. (The Soviet Union has one-fourth of the world's natural-gas reserves, but has instituted a widespread fuel-conservation program nonetheless.) Because natural gas is the cleanest-burning fuel of all, there is no air pollution...