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...real advantage of defense contracts is the research sophistication that may pay off in commercial products. Out of its military experience, France leads the world in the development of STOL (for short take-off and landing) transport planes. Sweden's plane-and-automaking Saab is now turning out compact computers for the commercial market, having learned to make them for its jet fighters. Most European contractors, however, have so far found the commercial side-effects disappointing. Britain, despairing of competing in sophisticated weaponry, has decided to concentrate its technology on commercial aspects and its armory on more conventional weapons...
...Chuck McKinley was its brightest star. Compact (5 ft. 8 in., 160 Ibs.) and muscular, McKinley plays tennis with an astounding lack of grace. He leaps, he lunges, he scrambles, he slides, he falls, he dives, he skins his elbows and knees, and he flails at the ball as if he were clubbing a rat. His nerves are as taut as the strings of his racket. "Oh, Charley, you missed that one," he hollers after a bad shot, and he drew a four-month suspension from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association when he angrily heaved his racket into the stands...
...Goulart's noisy brother-in-law decided to make an issue out of the settlement. "Instead of getting money, the gringos should pay indemnity to Brazil for rendering bad service," he thundered. Unexpectedly and inexplicably, Carlos Lacerda, the militantly anti-Communist Governor of Guanabara state, declared that the compact would cost the government $600 million and found a right-wing reason for opposing it. He called the contract an effort "to disguise Brazil's progressive entry into the Soviet orbit." Goulart's resolve melted under all the political heat; he ordered still an other detailed appraisal...
...rest of the revue ranged over wider subject areas. Pat Dole and George Connolly touched on the trials of compact car "parking ("I thought it was your head, but it was only the steering wheel.") That dur- able dart board, the First Family, was treated quite well with a song about "Young Love"--Caroline was just "the girl next door" whom George Connolly met at the Easter egg roll...
...went it alone during the colorless years, and now sells 55% of all the color TV sets and almost all of the color tubes used by other manufacturers, is spending $11.6 million to expand its plant at Lancaster, Pa. Challenging RCA with new competition, Motorola last week introduced a compact color tube that creates a 23-in.-long rectangular picture but is 5½ in. shallower than the RCA tube. Motorola sets with the new tube will begin...