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...huge Titan was only one of a score of missiles whose power comes from the nation's biggest rocketmaker. Aerojet's "solid-propellant guys" were hard at work on the Navy's 1,500-mile Lockheed Polaris as well as a flock of deadly birds named Hawk, Sparrow, Bullpup, Genie. Last week Aerojet blasted off on two new projects involving several exciting new technologies...
Sinker. In Burnet, Texas, Dave Hawk took a commanding lead in the state bass-fishing tournament, reached shore, was given a summons by a game warden for catching too many fish...
Keep It Fluid. While it was changjng its pace, Raytheon really went after military contracts, now does 80% of its business with the Government. It is the only U.S. electronics firm with prime contracts for two mass-production missiles (the Army's ground-to-air Hawk and the Navy's air-to-air Sparrow III), is subcontractor for electronic devices for twelve other missiles and for equipment for the 6-52 and the 6-58. It is also manufacturing transistors, and their successor spa-cistors, for everything from field radios to satellite innards, hopes to raise...
...Jumblatt controls 20 villages and an army of about 2,000 wool-capped tribesmen who carry grenades slung from belts and watch fobs, and shoulder Italian submachine guns as casually as hoes. Tall, thin, hawk-nosed, and dressed in slightly rumpled grey suit, Jumblatt himself is a somewhat intellectual mountaineer who studied in Paris, served as a Socialist Deputy and minister in Beirut, took up Gandhian philosophy after a visit to India in 1951, and last year walked out in disgust from Nasser's Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference in Cairo on realizing that it was Communist...
...Horace Hooper, a U.S. book salesman, appeared in Britain, began dealings that led to his buying the Britannica (in 1901). In 1898, he teamed with the Times of London in a hard-sell campaign to hawk the encyclopedia at cut rates with time payments and advertising. A howl arose over the raucous black-type hucksterism in the grey pages of the "Thunderer." Wrote one affronted M.P. to Hooper: "You have made a damnable hubbub, sir, and an assault upon my privacy with your American tactics." But in a few years, Hooper's whooping sold 100,000 sets...