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...Bendix and General Electric play critical roles. Soon a new business climate emerged. At the top, the Pentagon made shrewd use of its monopsony-one customer but many suppliers-to foster competition. To meet the unsparing military demand for excellence, companies undertook research and development on a hitherto undreamed of scale; today engineers and scientists constitute a third of Lockheed's work force against only 5% during World War II. Bidding for big contracts became so costly that companies began to specialize instead of lunging after every bit of new business. Often aerospace firms must risk millions of their...
...passed along his conclusions to a group of Pittsburgh businessmen last week. His general argument: it has long since become academic for business to argue against federal intrusions. Said Harper: "I am convinced that the role now being played by Government is of vastly broader scope than anything hitherto experienced by even highly regulated industries." This being the case, what industry should really do is get with the trend and try to guide...
Died. Sergei Korolev, 59, long-rumored head of the Soviet space program, now identified by Tass as the hitherto anonymous designer of the 1957 Sputnik and 1959 Lunik satellites as well as the Vostok and Voskhod spacecrafts used in the world's first manned flight (Yuri Gagarin, in 1961) and first space walk (Alexei Leonov, last March); of complications following surgery; in Moscow...
...Nile Valley, University of Chicago archaeologists recently unearthed a major manuscript discovery. Dug from the ruins of a 10th century Christian monastery on the Egyptian-Sudanese border, their find is an ancient Coptic prayer book containing a hymn to the Cross recited by Jesus before the Crucifixion and a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Christ and his disciples after the Resurrection...
...choirs and star alone must have cost plenty). What seriousness of purpose, what singleness of thought to hold to for 33 years And finally, she even managed to have Him find someone on that last day to take care of her in case something went wrong. Hail to the hitherto unknown perpetrator of the plot. Back of every great man is a woman...