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...Krim [Feb. 15] indicates that President Theodore Roosevelt was responsible for the famed ultimatum to Raisuli, the notorious Moroccan bandit who had captured and was holding for ransom Ion Perdicaris, a naturalized American, and his stepson, an Englishman named Varley. As a matter of fact it was the brainchild of E. M. ("Eddie") Hood, one of the most revered members of the Washington staff of the Associated Press, Hood was assigned to the State Department many years and because of his knowledge and personality became the confidant of each Secretary who served during that period...
...Anchored off the wild, desert coast of South West Africa last week, an ungainly craft went about its unlikely work-sucking diamonds, along with tons of silt and rock, from the sea bottom. Barge 77, the world's only floating diamond mine, is the brainchild of Texan Sammy Collins, 48, a stocky, onetime oilfield roustabout who amassed a fortune in the exacting business of laying underwater pipeline. Intrigued by diamonds during an African engineering job, Collins went underseas prospecting in 1961 despite geologists' warnings that he was wasting his time and money, risked $6,000,000 to back...
...Brainchild of a five-man engineering team headed by wispy Jiro Horikoshi, designer of World War II's deadly Zero fighter, the YS 11 is a response to mounting Japanese sentiment that "Japan must get its own skies back." Grounded by Occupation edicts from the end of World War II until 1952, the once potent Japanese aircraft industry has fluttered along since then by producing a handful of U.S.-designed planes under license...
INSA is the brainchild of its burly, personable president. Engineer Roberto Salas Capriles, 37. Salas, a onetime professor at Venezuela's Central University, became convinced three years ago that import restrictions were inevitable in Venezuela, and set about signing up U.S. manufacturers for his scheme. The majority of INSA's stock is held by Venezuelans, but 30% of the company's initial $2.250,000 capital was put up by the Rockefeller-backed International Basic Economy Corp. To help INSA get started...
Knox's brainchild, the Orbiteer, is to the Frisbie* what the Fairlane is to the model T. An 18-in. soft-plastic disk of six blades extending from the hub, with a handle shaped like the ionizer of a space station, it is thrown into the wind on an axis perpendicular to the ground. Depending on the throw, it scoots along for 50 ft. to 100 ft., then tips to a horizontal plane and zooms upward as high...