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Born. To Kevin McClory, 41, Irish movie producer, latest of the Bondsmen (Thunderball), and Fredericka Ann ("Bobo") Sigrist, 25, heiress to the Hawker-Siddeley aircraft fortune: their second child, a daughter (she also has a daughter by First Husband Gregg Juarez, with whom she eloped at 17); in Dublin...
...computer-operated landing system aboard the Trident is called the Autoflare, developed by Smith's Aircraft Instruments and Hawker Siddeley Aviation. Autoflare takes over within 150 ft. of the ground (see diagram). The plane is brought down the glide path toward the runway on radio beams from standard instrument landing equipment on the ground. From 150 ft. to 65 ft., twin computers aboard take control, directing the descent with information they have memorized and stored during the preceding 15 sec. At 65 ft., radio altimeters on board switch in. Now they signal the computers, which then bring the plane...
...robbed Britain in recent years of some of its best scientific talent. British managers also tend to look down their noses at the self-made man and the aggressive merchant. "A tremendous amount of work has to be done," in the opinion of Sir George Briggs, deputy chairman of Hawker Siddeley Industries, "to root out the prejudice that trade...
...string of nine devilish burlesques which the Theatre Company plays to the hilt with hilarious effect. Cummings' satire rapidly shatters several dramatic styles, bits of folklore, hundreds of hollow platitudes and idioms, and the comparatively serious tone of the rest of Him. One sketch has a side-walk hawker selling a miracle cure for a disease called "cinderella." Another, an off-color parody of the "Frankie and Johnnie" legend, is interrupted by a representative of the Society for the Contraception of Vice. The funniest and least subdued skit takes place at "the Old Howard's conception of a Roman Villa...
...been priced as high as $6.44 per share only last November, hit bottom at the news: there were no takers at a penny a share. Rolls stockholders were not the only victims of disaster. Such creditors as Tallent Engineering ($2,400,000), Pressed Steel Co. ($1,200,000), and Hawker Siddeley ($151,000, for a company plane) have virtually no chance of recovering their claims. There was even the question of how housewives would be able to get guaranteed repair service on John Bloom's washing machines. Shocked into action, the London Stock Exchange last week asked its member...