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Kennecott and Curtiss-Wright finally end their feud
Finally last week the feud was settled. Kennecott and Curtiss-Wright, the upstart industrial and aerospace conglomerate that tried to take over the copper company, signed a ten-year agreement preventing either one of them from trying to gain control of the other. Says Erica Steinberger, a lawyer advising Curtiss-Wright: "This is the grand finale, the climax, the end-I hope...
...commuting back and forth to shallow, Atlantis-like undersea apartment clusters. It is tempting to see the baby sub not just as a prototype toy for the rich in Florida and California but as a seagoing Model T Ford, a future flivver of the deep, or like the Curtiss Jenny biplane, some kind of ur-machine that may usher in a new age of travel. In that perspective Kittredge and Jacobson, like early aviation nuts who paid for their rickety planes by giving flying lessons or built them on a financial shoestring in barns and attics, can be regarded...
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld A Savage War of Peace, Alistair Home Other People's Letters, Mina Curtiss Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair Scribble, Scribble, Nora Ephron The Gulag ArchipelagoIII, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Eventually Curtiss published her Letters of Marcel Proust, and it brought a poignant meeting with the Countess Greffulhe, one of the models for the Duchess de Guermantes. All that remained of her remarkable beauty was exquisite bones and unique-colored eyes, which her cousin, the famous Count de Montesquiou, had compared to "black fireflies." Her memory was still young, however, and Proust was as vivid in mind as the day he walked into her salon. "I didn't like him," she recalled. "His sticky flattery was not to my taste. There was something I found unattractive about...