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Space-Age Principles. Chance is an unabashed advocate of applying space-age principles to the ancient art of boat building. It is no accident that his chief engineer, Eric Hall, used to work for Grumman Corp., the people who built the Apollo lunar module. Experimenting with tensile strengths and thermal coefficients. Chance refitted the old Intrepid with exotic lightweight metals -beryllium on the top of the mast, magnesium for the winches, boron graphite for the boom-to cut the weight of these vital fittings...
...Louis complex will be kept busy producing the F-15 fighter, a contract that could eventually be worth $8 billion. But in the company's California plants, employment has dropped from 71,000 to 56,000, reflecting space cutbacks and dwindling orders for DC-8s and DC-9s. Grumman, despite a contract with a potential value of $5 billion to build the Navy's Mach 2 F-14 fighter plane, expects to lay off 1,200 engineers this year...
...hall manned by a dozen or more experts. Complete telemetry from the spacecraft is received by staff-room consoles, which funnel the most important bits to the control room and store the rest. The space program's major contractors-North American Rockwell for the command and service modules, Grumman for the lunar module-also keep staff members in nearby offices. In case of trouble with spacecraft equipment, the contractors can call major subcontractors on their own hot lines. Mission Control maintains an up-to-the-minute list of the whereabouts of some 40,000 key scientists and engineers associated...
...more dissimilar Olympians would be hard to imagine. Al Oerter is 32 and white, a hulking 260-pounder who lives with his wife and two children on suburban Long Island and works as supervisor of the computer communications department at Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. Bob Beamon is 22, black and bearded, a gangling 160-lb. product of the streets of New York who attends the University of Texas at El Paso on a track scholarship-and says that he would rather be playing basketball. Last week in Mexico City, each in his own way demonstrated what the Olympic Games...
...most part the patrons of the Sunset don't use the LIRR. They live in the neighborhood, work at nearby stores and factories, and come into the place after work to chat about the things people always talk about in bars. "How are they treating you at Grumman," one man says to another as they sip their Schlitz and Schaffer. "Not bad, but I'm not going anyplace," he replies. A little further down the rubbed wood bar, a scotch drinker banters with the barmaid, asking how she likes the heat. "Most of the time...