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...wait for the year-long process of changing dies. Instead, he devised a method of bolting extra panels of metal on to the old body to get the new style into his showrooms as quickly as possible. While looking over one recent model, Curtice spotted a flaw in its lines, was told that it was far too late to do anything about it. Said he: "To hell with the time element; let's make the change...
...Cambridge cosmographers do not favor the theory of the explosive universe. Sciama admitted that the heat of the original explosion might permit a few elements to form, but he said that according to the principles of nuclear physics the building-up process would stop with helium. An even worse flaw, said Sciama, in the explosive universe theory is that it presupposes a complicated set of original conditions (temperature, density, etc.) that its proponents believe would have produced the existing universe. This is as arbitrary, said Sciama, as saying: "Things are as they are because they were as they were...
...sits on the foam-rubber throne of Dunlop's empire is big (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), grey-haired George Edward Beharrell, 55. In his realm he finds one flaw: Dunlop sales rank but fifth in the U.S.* Last week George Beharrell made a big move to correct this flaw. He announced that Dunlop will spend $5,500,000 to modernize its plant at Buffalo and streamline its U.S. sales organization...
...capsule of cobalt-60 (cost: $50) will cast its X-ray beam through metal welding, will easily show up every flaw. This inspection process, too expensive with old-style X-ray machines, increases the welding safety factor, reduces the thickness of metal that need be used. Example: if all welds are inspected with CO-60, a 50 ft. "Horton sphere" for storing high-pressure gases can be built safely with 12% less steel at a saving...
...straight races. Said Callow: "They have an 'engine room' [Stroke Oar Ed Stevens and No. 7, Wayne Frye] that is one of the greatest that has ever rowed in a shell." As far as Callow was concerned, his boatload of oarsmen had only one flaw, and that was beyond repair: for six members of the Navy varsity (the "Sing Sing Six of the Severn") last week's race at Lake Onondaga, N.Y. was their last. Five already had their commissions (two Navy, three Air Force...