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...notices to dozens of subcontractors and suppliers to stop work on orders totaling millions of dollars, estimated it may have to lay off hundreds of employees. Pratt & Whitney expects to lay off about 800. Convair would also be hurt by the elimination of additional funds for its 6-58 Hustler bomber and by Kennedy's decision to cut back the B70 jet bomber program. If all the cuts go through, and if Convair gets no other contracts, its 18,000-man work force at its Fort Worth plant would have to be deeply slashed...
Bulky, cherry-cheeked Roy Herbert Thomson, 66, was once described by a female employee as "a money-grasping old goat, but a dear old goat at that." In London, where he now headquarters, he has been variously called "the Henry Ford of journalism" (by the Observer), a "ruthless hustler with a Midas touch" (by the Communist Daily Worker) and "a religious man." This last description comes from Thomson himself, who adds: "It's against my religious principles to lose money...
...Slack notes, "The first hours were filled with bravado and hostility. But gradually they became dependent on the job and the kindness of the experimenter." "Them--people, from all over, from the Square, Roxbury, Brighton. Everywhere in them cities my name is known, for two things. I'm a hustler; I'm a bad man." At first individual meetings were held. As the project progressed through trial and error, however, it was soon found that group sessions were not only more effective but less expensive as well--a factor of no small importance to the limited funds of the program...
...Boeing and Douglas jets. Its big advantages are speed-some 40 m.p.h. faster than the 707 and the DC-8-and what promises to be impressive economy of operation. Powered by four commercial versions of the General Electric J-jg engine that pushes the Air Force 6-58 Hustler bomber to Mach 2 speeds, the 880 has so much power that even with a full passenger load it needs only 5,800 ft. of runway for take-off (v. 8,000 ft. for bigger jets), can serve almost any airport that handles four-engined planes...
...Soviet air force is currently introducing into service a supersonic bomber so new that NATO has not got round to assigning it a code name. A new delta-wing supersonic bomber, to which NATO recently gave the code name Bounder, appears to match the U.S.'s 6-58 Hustler; the new plane is presumed to be even more advanced. Soviet forces have been energetically improving and expanding far northern airbases from the Kola Peninsula near Scandinavia to the Chukotski Peninsula opposite Alaska. Crews of some 1,000 medium Badger bombers and 200 heavy Bisons have been training hard...