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...last year helped shore up the nation's strained balance of payments with $444 million in foreign-earned revenue. The company now manufactures 250 different pieces of heavy-duty equipment, from pipelayers (cost: $96,000) capable of lifting 100 tons to giant scrapers (cost: $148,000) that can gulp 54 cubic yards of earth in a single sweep...
...time to welcome her new record of Berio's Circles and Sequensa Ill, and to prepare for next week's Contemporary Music Festival at Geneva. There she will do her own composition Stripsody, an unaccompanied vocal fantasy based on themes from the comic strips. Sample lyrics: "Arrgy . . . Gulp . . . Good grief! . . . Blam . . . Blam . . . It's Superman...
...changes its frictional effects and causes the torpedo to turn. In a rocket flying through the atmosphere, the control jets of a fluidic stabilization system are attached to vents in the rocket's nose cone. As the attitude of the rocket be gins to change, the nose vents gulp in air at different pressures, and those changing pressures control a small jet of hot gases shot at right angles into the rocket's exhaust. As the exhaust gases are deflected, they correct the rocket's attitude...
...appear to have no effect on athletes' hearts. Scores of physicians from a dozen countries ran elaborate tests on the athletes in October, and the electrocardiograms were normal. The problem is simply that breathing is less efficient, or as Dr. Hanley puts it: "You get less oxygen per gulp, so you've got to take more gulps to get enough oxygen to the muscles...
...Your cover story on millionaires [Dec. 3] must have been a hard gulp to swallow for those who believe success is achieved by luck. These millionaires prove that success is due to the internal qualities of the individual-perseverance, determination, guts-who finds or creates opportunities in the market. To these men, I say thank you; their example gives me confidence to say that I, now a student, will become one of the "Millionaires Under 40" in the not too distant future...