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Koji Kobayashi, LL.D., president of Nippon Electric Co., Ltd...
...golfing partners. They also were mutual enthusiasts about the West Indies, where Bond frequently cavorted and where Booker owns eight sugar plantations, as well as investments in ships and stores. When Fleming, during a golf game, complained that no one would buy his Bond-holding Glidrose Productions Ltd. and manage it while he spent more time writing, Sir Jock did his friend a favor by offering $250,000 for 51% control...
Streamlined it isn't. "It looks," observed the London Daily Sketch, "like a motorized greenhouse without the tomatoes." But never mind. The Cubicar, an almost perfectly cubic car manufactured by Britain's Universal Power Drives Ltd., could well become the commuter car of the future. In the age of the traffic jam, when both road space and parking space are at a premium, the 6-ft.-4-in.-long Cubicar is a fascinating concept. With a top speed of 55 m.p.h., it gets about 24 miles to the gallon. It can seat five adults in comfort...
...Britten-Norman Ltd. seems almost an anachronism. The airstrip at the company's plant near the resort town of Bembridge on Britain's Isle of Wight is nothing but a sod runway. The one plane that Britten-Norman builds carries ten people in a fuselage that even its designers admit is "just an aluminum rack." It has a high, slablike wing and a top speed of only 168 m.p.h. Yet low and slow as it flies, the Britten-Norman (BN-2) Islander, as it is called, has proved to be a soaring success...
Died. Sir Myles Wyatt, 64, British aviation magnate, who built a small aeronautical company into British United Airways, Europe's biggest privately owned airline; in Colchester, England. In 1934, Wyatt joined Airwork Ltd., an aviation-equipment supplier, became managing director in 1938, in the postwar years snapped up smaller independent airlines to form BUA, and in 1961 created Air Holdings Ltd., a financial umbrella for the group, which recently agreed to purchase 50 Lockheed airbuses for $750 million, intending to use or resell the planes overseas...