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...building where the Saturn V will be assembled. "You could put the Pentagon and the Chicago Merchandise Mart inside it," said NASA guide Henry Decker, who can tell you every detail of every building on the Cape...
...employees with particular solicitude. A "private's general," he takes pride in the good chow and creature comforts that soften a draftee's adjustment to military life. New men are greeted at reception centers with brass bands. At Fort Jackson, S.C., and Fort Dix, N.J., drafty, double-decker wooden barracks are giving way to modern brick buildings that resemble campus dormitories. They have bathrooms on every level, rooms with from two to eight bunks, telephones, lounge rooms and Laundromats. There are automatic dishwashers and potato-peeling machines for K.P. duty...
Gilliland made his own contribution to the Frisco's good profit picture in the late 1950s, when he coordinated the road's industry-leading development of two-and three-decker automobile carriers. Last year the Frisco hauled 250,000 cars and trucks on tracks that run through nine states (but come no closer to San Francisco than Floydada, Texas...
...talk about examining their books these days, they may not be referring to debit and credit ledgers. Among U.S. companies, books have become so popular as sales tools that last year this category outstripped all other come-on devices except toys. More than 150 U.S. corporations-including Chrysler, Black & Decker, Weyerhaeuser, Phillips Petroleum, Carnation and G.E.'s Hotpoint Division-use books in sales campaigns. Last week the Aluminum Co. of America launched one of the biggest book campaigns yet. For 500 and an Alcoa coupon, it will send out a 310-page paperback called Mealtime Magic Cookbook, which contains...
...shoulder of San Francisco's Jim Ray Hart, and in 56 innings this season, Bob has walked 26 men. But now it's the catchers who have to look out. The speed of his "hummer" is estimated at well over 90 m.p.h. Sighs the Cards' Bob Decker, "You'd better bring along an extra sponge...