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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barnaby's strategy will necessitate some shuffling at the lower singles and doubles positions. Steve Devereux, Bruce Weigand, Bo Jones, Kent Parrot, and Oxford will be battling for singles sports as the season progresses...
Decision-making is its job, but last week the Supreme Court could not make up its mind in two cases. On both, the justices deadlocked 4 to 4, which meant that the court affirmed the lower court without ruling on the merits.* Such ties do not happen often, but there have now been four this term. The reason is that the newest justice, Thurgood Marshall, has had to disqualify himself from almost every case decided...
Electric and Pratt & Whitney; the Rolls RB-211 turbofan was the engineers' choice because of efficiency and lower noise levels. But at $2,500,000 a plane, the British-made engines meant a $235 million drain on the U.S. balance of payments. Lockheed solved this with an arrangement in which Ah" Holdings will sell 50 of the early L-1011s abroad. This will bring in $625 million for a favorable U.S. balance of $390 million, and further sales in a market estimated at 1,000 planes by 1980 could raise the U.S. excess to well over $5 billion dollars...
...carry passengers eight across in coach class and six across in first class. Two aisles toward the sides of the plane will separate the eight seats into a two-four-two arrangement. The plane can also carry 345 people, all in tourist class. Meals will be cooked on a lower deck, sent by elevator to the passenger level. The Rolls engines will carry the big jets 3,160 miles at speeds equivalent to today's jets, but the L-101ls will need less landing and takeoff space and will arrive and depart more quietly than present jets. Beginning with...
...developed such unlikely new products as aluminum "ice cubes," which have to be cooled in the refrigerator like ordinary ones but have the great ad vantage of being reusable. Alcoa has also come up with a host of innovations in manufacturing techniques. With new production processes paying off in lower costs, the company has doubled annual profits during the past four years...