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...DIED. Alton Ochsner, 85, internationally renowned surgeon, teacher and medical researcher who in 1936 suggested a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer; after heart surgery; in New Orleans. An outspoken critic of American health habits, he co-founded the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans in 1941 and served as its director of surgery for 24 years, training heart specialists like Michael DeBakey and attending such patients as Argentina's President Juan Peron, Golfer Ben Hogan and Actor Gary Cooper...
...stretch out: the order-to-delivery time for Pratt & Whitney's F-100 aircraft engine, for example, has lengthened from 19 to 38 months in the past two years. Experts warn that the industry does not have the capacity to build arms at the pace that Reagan wants. General Alton D. Slay, head of the Air Force Systems Command, told Congress in December that "even if we go all out for mobilization of our resources," the U.S. "would not begin to see significantly larger numbers of planes flying for at least three years...
...latest reports on the Ohio are the first hopeful Trident news in years. In June, Captain Alton Thompson took the big black sub out to sea for the first time. The Navy described the three days of trials as "super swell." Electric Boat has promised to deliver the Ohio to the Navy by Halloween. A brand-new $706.5 million Trident base is waiting in Bangor, Wash., and the Lockheed-built Trident missiles-each tipped with up to ten warheads-have been ready for two years...
...assured for the amendment.* It passed Congress in 1972 and in the following five years was ratified by 35 state legislatures -just three short of the necessary 38. But there it stopped, stymied by the energetic campaigning of "Stop ERA" forces headed by Right-Wing Activist Phyllis Schlafly of Alton, Ill., and by the increasingly conservative turn in the nation's mood...
Helen and Alton Dahlstrom Rossland...