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...Peace. While Zeiss has long been Germany's biggest cameramaker. and is the second largest in the world, the camera business is only one part of its optical empire. Founded more than 100 years ago by Instrument-maker Carl Zeiss and Physicist Ernst Abbe, it is controlled by the nonprofit Carl Zeiss Foundation, which taps off the earnings of eleven owned or controlled factories "for the furtherance of the precision-instrument industry and science in general...
When the National Park Service began looking around for a sculptor to do a new figure for the top of the 97-ft. shaft of the Yorktown, Va. monument commemorating Washington's victory over Cornwallis, its eye fell on Norwegian-born Oskar Hansen, 61. Hansen was a monument-maker of some repute: he did the figures at Boulder Dam, a World War I memorial in Hinsdale, Ill., and a Columbus memorial in Rio de Janeiro. What was needed at Yorktown was a new statue of Liberty to replace the one decapitated by lightning...
...with a cartel. Like other U.S. watchmakers who import Swiss movements, it has to; the Swiss passed a law in 1951 cartelizing their entire watch industry. Since 86% of all jewel movements sold in this country come from Switzerland (about 70% of Bulova's do), virtually every U.S. maker deals with the cartel. In doing so, the industry knuckles under to a tightly closed shop. The Swiss dictate how much watches are to be sold for, where they may be sold, and how many a manufacturer may have. Furthermore, they limit the use of watchmaking machinery bought in Switzerland...
Charging cruelty, Mrs. Ruth Garsson, ,33, filed suit for separation against 63-year-old former Munitions Maker Murray Garsson, now living quietly in New York City since his release from prison over two years ago. Garsson served 19 months of an 8-to-24-month sentence. With his brother Henry and Kentucky's former Representative Andrew May, he had been convicted of conspiracy and bribery involving Government contracts...
...Credited, respectively, to Lieut. Colonel E. L. Hoffman (1926); Major General Albert Hegen-berger (1934); Aircraft Maker Donald W. Douglas (1935); General Carl Spaatz (1944); Pilot "Chuck" Yeager, Designer John Stack and Manufacturer Lawrence D. Bell, jointly...