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...rush then began among fledgling launchers to help clear the world cargo backlog and carve out a piece of future business. In the U.S., aerospace giants Martin Marietta, McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics, all longtime manufacturers of the rockets used by NASA and the U.S. Air Force, are determined to capture a share of the new market. Space agencies in the Soviet Union and China as well as Japan are also gearing up to provide launching services...
...Homemaker Leone Ackerly, mother of three, wanted to buy a new auto. To earn the money, she hired herself out as a cleaning lady. She has since, as they say, cleaned up. Now 41, Ackerly drives a Jaguar XJ6 and oversees a maid-service empire, based in Marietta, Ga., with 900 employees at 96 franchises in 24 states. Annual revenues: more than $9 million. Mini Maid is about to launch franchises in Germany, Italy and Australia. The secret of Ackerly's success? Says she: "We do one thing one way for one price...
...need for additional coverage is painfully evident throughout the U.S. Harry Williams, for example, is a retired attorney in Marietta, Ga., whose wife Jeanne died last October after a prolonged struggle with cancer. She was hospitalized eleven times in five years, including four operations, and finally, says Williams, "she just wore out." Williams, 75, now owes $14,000 in medical bills, and he is thankful that the hospital to which he pays $100 a month is not forcing him to sell his house...
...blood, even when they were immigrants like Weill (Germany) and Herbert (Ireland). Herbert, a cello virtuoso and conductor who directed the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904, wanted to be taken seriously -- as did, similarly, Sir Arthur Sullivan -- but it was his 40-odd operettas (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta) that won him lasting fame. Hunsberger leads crisp, snappy performances of several rousing marches and show tunes. The disk also includes selections from Herbert's forgotten 1911 grand opera Natoma: light Wagner set in Southern California with an Indian maiden for a heroine, if such a thing can be imagined...
...Martin Marietta hopes for a big share of the estimated $1 billion annual launching market that the European Space Agency has virtually had to itself since January's shuttle tragedy. But others are eyeing the pie. Among them: General Dynamics, which has built Atlas-class rockets, and McDonnell Douglas, the maker of Delta boosters...