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...plane that Boeing is looking for partners to help do the work and share the cost. In no other industry are there such large international combines?or so much high-level politicking. When he visited Jimmy Carter last June, British Prime Minister James Callaghan discussed an Anglo-American aviation linkup. British Aerospace, a nationalized collection of airframe and weapon makers, is being courted by the European Airbus consortium and Boeing. As a start, Boeing wants British Aerospace to make the wings for its planned narrow-bodied, 150-passenger...
...which also is a major aerospace manufacturer and food processor, is keeping quiet about its postmerger plans, at least until after shareholders of both companies vote in late August or early September to approve the linkup. All LTV has said is that it will not close Youngstown's Indiana Harbor mill, near Chicago, which could feed raw steel to Jones & Laughlin's Hennepin, Ill., processing plant and give the enlarged combine a fully integrated facility in the Middle West. While the two companies are complementary in some ways, they also have redundancies. LTV has promised that the merger...
...quipped: "Now don't be chicken. We're friends in here." The newcomers even brought newspapers and letters from home. Then all four exchanged toasts in cherry juice squeezed from tubes. The docking 320 kilometers (200 miles) above the earth gave Russia another space-age first: the linkup of more than two spacecraft...
...multiple linkup is also proof that the Russians are acquiring the capability of constructing large orbital stations made of numerous components shipped up separately from earth and assembled in space. Said an American space official after seeing the three-part assembly on radar: "It looks like a long, fat Russian sausage in space...
Although Murphy and Grady are both in favor of the housing projects, neither buys the contention that the homes are contingent on the plant's construction. Grady calls the linkup blackmail, while Murphy contends that because Edison is supplying electricity to the housing, only a small steam unit is needed for the housing...