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...Dutch engineer who in 1904 emigrated to the U.S., in the early 1920s developed the first successful plane-arresting gear for U.S. aircraft carriers (the Saratoga and Lexington), with partner Theodore H. Barth was commissioned by the Navy to devise a better bombsight and in 1939 finally produced a compact (12 in. by 19 in.), though enormously complex, $25,000 instrument so precise that U.S. bombardiers could, as they loved to brag, literally "hit a pickle barrel from 20,000 ft."; of pneumonia; in Zurich, Switzerland...
While the sales of compact, inexpensive cars are declining rapidly at one end of Detroit's price spectrum, sales of luxury cars-those with basic prices above $4,000-are doing better than ever at the other end. Benefiting from the consumer's urge to "trade up" in times of prosperity, the luxury cars are rolling along at a record 400,000 annual-sales rate, have raised their share of the market from 3.9% to 4.6% since 1963. General Motors' Cadillac, the long-established expensive-car leader, has set new sales records for 16 consecutive...
...Saroyan failure matters scarcely at all, however, because the final piece, Garcia Lorca's The Love of Don Perlimpin for Belisa in the Garden, is nearly perfect. It is utterly compact; the depth and the texture of the fantasy are established in the first moment by a lute, by Joseph Ingelfinger's clever valentine set, and by the action of the two sprites who manipulate players and audience. There is no trace of strain in Lorca's imaginative forays; he evokes intense and genuine emotion without fighting against the unreal setting of the theatre. But because the play recognizes...
...weapons have changed both war and politics, Aron says. In typically compact language he explains: Three radically new elements are instrumental in determining the three major concepts of strategic theory, concepts that suggest the three responses so far worked out to the triple challenge of monster weapons, permanent alert, and annihilation of entire nations without the need first to disarm them. The first is deterrence, symbolic of the effort to substitute the threat of force for its actual application; the second is stability, replacing the obsolets notion of balance of power and designating the theoretical situation in which no nation...
...Ramblers rose to a record 37,580 units during the first six months of the fiscal year. Anxious to tap the other side of that market, Abernethy hopes that the restyled cars will be equally attractive to U.S. customers who have been buying imports, plans to pit the compact American directly against small, imported cars...