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...where she also tied for first place in the high jump, was dropped to second for her unorthodox style), discovered golf in 1931 and was soon outdriving men ("You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it"), won 56 major tournaments; after a three-year fight with cancer; in Galveston, Texas. Ranked by many the world's greatest woman athlete, Babe Didrikson dabbled expertly in most sports she did not star in (including boxing, football, swimming, pool, tennis), matured from a pugnacious girl into a talented housewife who could design her own clothes...
...became president of Western Electric, succeeding Frederick R. Kappel, American Telephone & Telegraph's new president (TIME, Oct. 1). Chicago-born Goetze joined Western Electric in 1917 as a draftsman, took night courses in electrical engineering. By 1952 he moved up to vice president of Western Electric, after a three-year stint as vice president with the Chesapeake & Potomac and the Ohio Bell Telephone companies. CJ Orville Simpson Carpenter, 57, was elected president of the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., one of the biggest U.S. natural-gas pipeline companies (gross annual revenue: $169,027,558). A certified public accountant...
...where everyone expects a ruggedly competitive battle. Even with the increases, 1957's auto buyer will get more for his money. Cars will be longer, lower, more powerful. Chevrolet will have fuel injection on its Corvette, make it optional equipment on other models; Ford has broken the standard three-year cycle for complete body changes, spent $209 million on a completely revamped car after only two years. Most exciting innovation: the industry's first production retractable hardtop (TIME, July 16), which Ford will introduce "early next year." Operating electrically, the top rides backward into the luggage compartment, transforming...
Behind the somewhat sham façade of force, a deadly serious game of consequences was being played. The Egyptians are in serious trouble over keeping Suez Canal pilots on the job. Right after Nasser took over, the old French company shrewdly offered all foreign pilots a three-year salary guarantee (average: about $11,000 a year) in return for a declaration of loyalty to the company. All but 40 of the 205 skilled navigators are foreigners-including 61 French. 54 British, two Americans. At least two-thirds signed the pledge...
...union : the largest wage and fringe-benefit package in its history (45. 6? an hour over the three-year period - ? an hour the first year, 9.1? the next two (prestrike average: $2.47 hourly). Auto matic cost-of-living adjustments, a 52-week, supplementary insurance plan for laid-off workers with two years' service, adding up to the best "guaranteed annual wage" in industry. Premium pay for Sun day work...