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Died. Sir Henry Spurrier, 66, recently retired chairman of England's vast Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd., who inherited control from his father in 1942 when Leyland was limited to double-decker buses and army tanks, turned it into the world's largest manufacturer of heavy-duty vehicles by absorbing competitors and peddling everything from panel trucks to earth movers to 130 countries, including Castro's Cuba, to which Leyland is delivering 450 buses in defiance of the U.S. trade embargo; after a long illness; in Preston, England...
...pencil, he had slipped past a police guard among surging newsmen. "He was explaining to members of the press from out of state who everybody was," said Rutledge. "Somebody would come out and say something to the press and a newsman would say, 'Who's that? Sheriff Decker?' and Ruby would say, 'No, that's Captain Will Fritz.' He'd spell out the names. He was making all the identifications, shouting them out." Once, testified Rutledge, an officer spotted Ruby in the crowd at headquarters and said, "Hey, Jack, what are you doing...
...gallery of representational painting called the French Quarter, opened yesterday at 1210 Massachusetts Avenue. The first exhibition is of works by British artist Eugene Decker...
...runaway success of transistor radios showed the U.S. consumer's fascination with what is simple and portable, and attracted U.S. industry to the virtues of the nickel-cadmiums. Skil Corp. and Black & Decker sell cordless electric hand drills, hedge trimmers, grass clippers and other tools that are powered by a small nickel-cadmium power pack built into the tool or strapped to the user's belt. Remington, Schick and Norelco have battery-run shavers. Sunbeam has a cordless shaver and kitchen mixer, General Electric a toothbrush, Fairchild a home movie camera. Nickel-cadmiums also power a growing variety...
...power packs, one battery company executive admits that "the rechargeable battery industry is about at the stage where color TV was five years ago." The expensive raw materials and relatively low-volume production at present keep prices of the batteries well above what most consumers like to pay (Black & Decker's battery hedge trimmer costs $99 v. $39 for a cord model). But as demand grows, the industry looks for mass production methods to come into use and to bring drastic price reductions...