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...claims to date: $50 million by the Houston firm of Brown & Root for the construction of shipyards and naval bases; $100 million by General Telephone & Electronics for the development of a telecommunications switching network; and $118 million by E.I. du Pont de Nemours for the building of a synthetic-fiber plant...
there are 200-ft.-long "fast patrol boats," destroyers, fiber-glass-and-plastic-hulled minesweepers, troop-carrying Hovercraft and even a 670-ft., 14,000-ton Vickers aircraft carrier. Nor is the infantry slighted: there are mortars (51 mm or 81 mm), silencer-equipped submachine guns, four-round sniper rifles (99% accuracy at 400 meters) and a battery-powered grenade launcher. Missiles? Try an air-to-air Sky Flash or a ship-to-air Seawolf, a Rapier ("low cost" and "low weight") or a Swingfire ("long-range" and "antitank"). Once the weapons are ordered, there are British firms that will...
...Kamali took a nylon parachute, rip cords and all, and produced the first fashionable jumpsuits. A couple of years later, Kamali, owner of a sleeping bag, realized she would no longer have time to go camping, once her favorite pastime. So she cut up the bag, fashioned a fiber-filled coat and thus was born the precursor of the down clothing rage. Right now, she is working on a new inexpensive line for young children...
...innocence during breaks in the Abscam hearings. First scenes not reassuring: a short man in a blue blazer, with eyes that glint like brass buttons, is carrying through hideous plot. Details as thin as his hair, which is combed forward in little bangs. A sure sign of flabby moral fiber and questionable sexual orientation. Only precedent, either thespian or tonsorial, is Frank Thring as Pontius Pilate in Ben-Hur. What he did to Charlton Heston the fellow in the blue blazer is doing to Port Charles, the town in which General Hospital is situated. Mr. Blue Blazer turns...
...fact, the takeovers will probably push France into deeper trouble. The country's economy is already suffering from anemic growth, 7.7% unemployment and sagging investment. Nationalizing the banks-and 32 large industrial enterprises, including the Dassault airplane manufacturing company and the Saint-Gobain-Pont-à-Mousson fiber-glass maker-will almost certainly deepen the existing slump by making businessmen more wary of investing their money. Says J. Paul Horne, European economic analyst for the Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. investment firm: "The French private banking sector is all but gone. New private investment in France has been virtually frozen...