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...your story [July 12] on increasing productivity in American industry, you refer to a major innovation at Pittsburgh Plate Glass in setting up a "float process" that will "double productive capacity by adding only 100 men to its current work force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1963 | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

Expanding its plant at Cumberland, Md., Pittsburgh Plate Glass is setting up a "float process" that will produce high-quality plate by floating molten glass on a pool of molten tin. Since the process requires no expensive grinders, buffers or polishers, the company will be able to double productive capacity by adding only 100 men to its current work force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: The Efficient Economy | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...Sailing Pavil- ion from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Club memberships are $10 and may be obtained from Darcy Dingle, director The fee includes classes for beginners and racers and limited guest privileges. Swiming tests are required. Ask for Mr. Dingle at the Harvard float, located on the left hand side of the pavilion

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Week's Events | 7/1/1963 | See Source »

...content to let the soaring geometry speak for itself, but with churches, he admits with a grin, "we refine a little." One of his most beautiful is the chapel in Lomas de Cuernavaca, done with Architect Guillermo Rosell. It is a pure hyperbolic paraboloid whose slender edges seem to float free and whose roof slopes from each end down to a skylight. Guarded by a tapering cross, it stands upon a lonely hill, surging toward the sky-a modern version of the mighty Gothic reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Prisoner of Geometry | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...dash, Mel Patton once explained, is to "boom and float" - explode from the starting blocks, drive hard for 50 yds., then "settle down and go for the ride." Slender and wiry, the World's Fastest Human of the '40s rode to a 9.3-sec. 100 - a world record that stood unmolested for 13 years, until Villanova's Frank Budd clocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: The Start's the Thing | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

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