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...like popcorn. It may be smooth or jagged all over. It may be radioactive or covered with highly reactive chemicals. It may have properties that do not exist on earth and that earthlings cannot imagine. A two-man spacecraft to land on this unknown surface is being built by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., but if it had to be redesigned at the last moment, it could shatter the whole schedule...
...Apollo simulators, Link has won $39 million in new orders in the past twelve months, including a $1,300,000 award to build the computer for the Gemini simulator and $3,500,000 for a general-purpose space-flight simulator. Link also builds flight simulators for the Grumman Gulfstream, the Lockheed Electra, the Convair 880, the DC-8 and Boeing's 707, 720 and 727 jets. This week Link is working out the final details of a contract to build two simulators for a new NATO antisubmarine patrol plane, the turboprop Atlantique...
...weeks ago. Teddy invaded New York to explain to the Grumman people why some of the subcontracting work on the lunar excursion module "requires the kind of special technology and skilled work force for which Massachusetts is especially well qualified." New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating accused Teddy of "pirating" and threatened to return the visit. But the folks in Boston loved it. "If making a pitch for new industry makes Teddy a pirate," said the Boston Traveler, "let's all salute the Jolly Roger...
Last week the order for 22 TFX's, worth an estimated $1.3 billion altogether, went to General Dynamics. It will pass on an as yet undetermined amount of work to its ally in the competition. Grumman Aircraft. Fast-rising Grumman thus bagged its second major contract within a month, having earlier won a $350 million order for the LEM moon "bug" (TIME...
Since the death in 1960 of longtime President Leon ("Jake") Swirbul, Grumman has been piloted by E. (for Edwin) Clinton Towl, 57, one of the six air-struck men who founded the company in a Long Island garage 33 years ago (among the others: Swirbul and Chairman Leroy Grumman, now 67). Quiet and unassuming, Towl (pronounced Toll) runs less of a one-man show than colorful Jake Swirbul did. When asked to name the big moment in his career, Clint Towl grins. "Tomorrow." With that LEM contract in his pocket, he is undoubtedly right...