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French Ax will be considerably different from French R. according to Dwight LeM. Bolinger, coordinator of romance language instruction. "Ax" will meet five times a week in sections conducted in French and emphasize speaking. listening comprehension, and writing as well as reading skills...
...estimated $1.3 billion altogether, went to General Dynamics. It will pass on an as yet undetermined amount of work to its ally in the competition. Grumman Aircraft. Fast-rising Grumman thus bagged its second major contract within a month, having earlier won a $350 million order for the LEM moon "bug" (TIME...
...turbulent circle of major aerospace contractors. Edging such bigger birds as General Dynamics and Boeing, Grumman was awarded NASA's $350 million initial contract to build the lunar "bug" that, it is hoped, will land Apollo astronauts on the moon by 1970. The 12-ton bug, called LEM (for Lunar Excursion Module), will be like nothing ever seen before: 10 ft. wide and 15 ft. high, with a window-dome top and three strutlike "legs" for landing...
...plan is for LEM to be lofted into lunar orbit along with the main Apollo spaceship, then be detached to carry two of the three Apollo spacemen to the moon's surface (TIME cover, Aug. 10). The bug, equipped with its own landing and take-off engines, will rendezvous later with the orbiting mother craft...
...Island garage 33 years ago (among the others: Swirbul and Chairman Leroy Grumman, now 67). Quiet and unassuming, Towl (pronounced Toll) runs less of a one-man show than colorful Jake Swirbul did. When asked to name the big moment in his career, Clint Towl grins. "Tomorrow." With that LEM contract in his pocket, he is undoubtedly right...