Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belle and his blondined second wife took a terraced apartment overlooking Copacabana Beach, bought a cabin cruiser, joined the Fluminense Club and the Yacht Club (membership fee: $2,000). Through a front man. Belle got control of two small firms that made abrasives, formed a holding company called Internacional de Màquinas e Abrasivos. He stepped off with appropriate fanfare: a caviar and steak luncheon and a trip to the humming factories in chauffeured Cadillacs for Rio's leading businessmen. Belle envisioned expansion into a sprawling complex of steel, paper and machine-tool plants...
...late now to change the rocket's instructions, which would control its course inexorably once it had left the pad. Each second of delay, Debus remarked, would cost an error of 17 miles at the distance of the moon. He studied the jeweled panels of lights. They had been green, red and amber. Now all were green...
...vaccine is supposed to give 100% protection only against Type II disease, it is claimed to give about 60% protection against Type I also. As hoped, Type I disease began to decline sharply as 205,000 children under eleven took their medicine (it took the riot squad to control the crowds), and there was not a single case of Type II disease...
...flowing substance of cinema. And he has aroused his actors to some very fine performances. Actor Messemer skillfully suggests a man who is more than he seems, while Actor Biberti devastatingly portrays a man who is less than he thinks. As for Actress Schell, she shows remarkable control of the subtle, brutal stages by which an unknowing girl is transformed into a bitterly experienced woman, who at the end can say with utter and awful authority: "What a small world you live in. You don't know what happens outside it. But I do. I have learned...
MERRITT-CHAPMAN & SCOTT will sell up to $22.5 million worth, or 60%, of its 80.5% stock interest in N.Y. Shipbuilding. Louis Wolfson, chairman of both companies, says Merritt-Chapman will retain management control. N.Y. Shipbuilding plans to acquire Higgins, Inc., New Orleans boat builder, through an exchange of stock worth...