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Candy's sweet success is the handiwork of the Fumagalli brothers-Niso, 55; Enzo, 48; and Peppino, 34-who took over their father's forsaken electrical apparatus factory after the war and made Candy an Italian household word with hard-selling sales and advertising campaigns. The Fumagallis originally intended to make dishwashers, but Enzo had been impressed by the popularity of washing machines in the U.S. while a prisoner of war in California. He named the company after a once-popular U.S. song that begins: "Candy, I call my sugar candy." Last year Candy took...
...University, are typical works of gentlemen designers and are very representative of the 18th century. Only one Harvard building of this period, Hollis Hall, has been attributed to a professional builder and even that is uncertain. Hollis was designed with polish and excellently constructed but still might be the handiwork of a well-versed amateur...
...from its ballast tanks and give buoyancy. In a flooding situation, anything less than full pressure would drastically slow down water ejection from the tanks-a fatal defect at Thresher's maximum depth. »Portsmouth workers installed 20% of the hydraulic-system valves backwards, inspected and approved their handiwork in that condition. When a control switch was pressed, a mechanical reaction occurred opposite to what was intended. For example, pushing a "down" button on the periscope caused it to go up. Thresher crew members found this flaw themselves, naturally insisted yard workers correct it. - Plane and rudder mechanisms that...
...undesirables and the misfits do not inhabit the fringe of society, Hoffer argues; they are the mainspring of change. The fact that they are failures in everyday life makes them jump at the chance to do the heroic. The U.S. itself, writes Hoffer, is the "handiwork of Europe's undesirables dumped on a virgin continent." California's present-day "fruit tramps and Okies" are the counterparts of the noble pioneers who settled the West...
Meeting with Two Russians. Slipyi's release is the diplomatic handiwork of two close Curia friends of Pope John-Augustin Cardinal Bea, chief of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and Gustavo Cardinal Testa, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, which supervises Byzantine-rite Catholics. Late last November, Bea arranged a quiet meeting between Testa and the two Russian observers at the Vatican Council. Testa smoothly pointed out that the Pope had officially disavowed a protest prepared by a group of Ukrainian bishops at the council objecting to the presence of the Russians, tactfully brought...