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Vertical Take-Off. With the Lehman-raised cash, Thornton and Ash bought Litton, then a small microwave tube manufacturer, and began broadening its spectrum by picking up a handful of other small electronics firms. As its stock soared. Litton found it easy to swap shares for control of larger companies. By acquiring Digital Controls Systems Inc., it got a foothold in the manufacture of compact computers that make as many as 15,000 calculations per second for aircraft in flight. A merger with Monroe Calculating Machine Co. gave Litton a chance to apply its electronic talents to the burgeoning business...
...meet sensation at last week's women's A.A.U. swimming championships in Philadelphia was ash-blonde Chris von Saltza, 17, who hoped to climax her competitive career by winning six gold medals. But Chris's retirement party was ruined by a willowy, 16-year-old upstart, Carolyn House of Los Angeles, who beat Chris in the 400-meter freestyle, also won the 200-meter and 1,500-meter races to swim off with three gold medals...
...Husk & Ash. With all the trials that camping brings-even with all its absurd concessions to civilized living-the one overwhelming fact about it is that the great mountains and forests of the U.S. are such indestructible marvels, and so mysteriously instructive to man's nature, that even the most unabashed dude and his togetherness-mad neighbor in the sprawl of Tent City return from a camping trip stronger for their experience...
...foot of a snow-splotched mountain on the western shore, hacked out the underbrush, laid down a floor of pine boughs, and put up their tent. By nightfall they had a campfire blazing (disdaining such backyard aids as starter fuel), and ate corn roasted in the husk, ash-baked potatoes, hamburgers, cold beer (iced in the lake) and hot coffee...
Last week Ekaterina (Khrushchev calls her Katya) dropped into London for a visit, and it was obvious that the Russian ideal was changing. Down 15 Ibs. (from 150), her ash-blonde hair brushed back in a casual sweep, newly chic in a slim, turquoise linen suit, Katya asked the curious women reporters who greeted her at the airport: "What do you think I should wear to dine with an earl...