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...Shipbuilders Council of America, finds "one development that makes me optimistic." The development: a surprising number of aerospace, electronic and other technically oriented companies are branching into shipbuilding, figuring that their scientific talent and sharp cost accounting can bail out the industry. Ingalls Shipbuilding got a technological fillip when it was acquired three years ago by Tex Thornton's Litton Industries. Aerojet-General recently bought Jacksonville's Gibbs Shipyards, and General Dynamics last January picked up Bethlehem Steel's huge yard at Quincy, Mass. Lockheed's highly efficient subsidiary in Seattle, Puget Sound Bridge & Dry Dock...
...after shooting Lincoln, was in fact a tobacco-curing barn. Beyond this the twists have gotten ridiculous. It has been noted that Kennedy was shot while riding in a Lincoln made by Ford. Lincoln of course was shot in Ford's Theater. In the end there is one fillip that has caused some political eyebrows to swivel: Andrew Johnson, after he filled out the remainder of Lincoln's second term, was followed in the White House by a Republican whose last name began with...
...Greco-Roman architecture. Even the marble ornamentation bespeaks the Renaissance virtues of knowledge and diversity. Military trophies, helmets and maces share the stone with musical instruments; there is a sculptural bestiary of basilisks and griffins, scrolled foliage and fruits. Proudly, the young grandee could not resist a final fillip: carved in the marble is a continuous frieze in Latin which proclaims that he "erected this castle as the castle of his title...
...Fillip of Fable. A weirdly serpentine coil of plot suddenly reveals Leamas as an expendable actor in a play within a play whose final scene his superiors in London have cruelly chosen not to tell him. Beyond this, the book offers a small fillip of fable. Spies in the West, where individual life is held precious, vaguely hope that a just cause may absolve a man from responsibility for violence. But in the end Le Carré's secret agents, on both sides, are themselves as ruthless as the acts they perform. Few of them face the fact...
...third-dimension departure on the sociometric circuit this winter is going to be the Inverse Insecurity Factor and its effect, if any, on the potato syllogism. For this undoubted fillip to martini talk, Americans will owe a limited debt of gratitude to the pseudonymous Mark Epernay, of Bogota, N.J., whose straightforward guide to the heady behavioral theories of Dr. Herschel McLandress seems destined to give the Bostonian psychometricist the popular acceptance accorded Kinsey and Havelock Ellis...