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Helio produces an STOL--short take-off and landing plane--which can take off in an area smaller than a baseball diamond. It was developed in the early 50's by a B-School professor. Lynn Bollinger, who founded the company along with the head of MIT's Aeronautics Labs. They sold their first model to the CIA for use in the secret war in Laos. It proved very helpful in reaching the otherwise inaccessible mountain hideouts of the Meo tribesmen. Now they produce STOL's for the Air Force for use in psychological warfare (equipped with speakers to broadcast...
...savings banks become more credit oriented, 24-hours banking services might be very possible," Lynn Chase, assistant treasurer of Cambridge Savings said...
York's next film was "Red and Blue" with Vanessa Redgrave, followed by "Smashing Time" with sister Lynn and Rita Tushingham. In 1966 he launched himself into the world of television as Young Jolyon in the BBC's popular adaptation of "The Forsyte Saga." During the summer of '67 York worked with Zeffirelli in Rome as Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet." Then he returned to twentieth century England for a persona as a young policeman in "The Strange Affair." Alexandria beckoned in "Justine" with Anouk Aimee, but "of all the films I've made. I like that one the least...
...Lynn decided on her unusual field even before her college years at Berkeley. "I wanted to be a surgeon," she admits, "but a friend at Stanford medical school discouraged me. He showed me how tough medicine is for a woman." So she added two years of art and medical-school training and took over the small medical art department at Berkeley. She then tried marriage to her high school boy friend. It lasted for three years. As Lynn puts it: "I got tired of our coming home from a day of sailing and finding we were looking at each other...
While she sees several men regularly, Lynn is also wont to go out unescorted with married couples and never feels the least pressure to remarry. Says she: "I've come close a couple of times, but there simply aren't that many marriages I envy. A lot of women are just hanging in there for the security, but that's a dumb reason to get married. As for children, I'm too much of a perfectionist to put up with them. I'd be a rotten mother...