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...horse race to devise the best Star Wars blueprint. A herd of 300 firms submitted initial applications, but SDIO narrowed the field to five, each of which will receive a $5 million grant to work on its designs. They include three major defense contractors --Rockwell, TRW and Martin Marietta--and two small electronics companies, Sparta of Huntsville, Ala., and Science Applications of La Jolla, Calif. Though their current grants are small, these firms expect to be out front if the big money starts to flow. Says Rockwell President Donald Beall: "Getting in early can give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star Wars Sweepstakes | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...ride on Space Mountain. As the roller coaster rounded a bend, the youth was suddenly thrown from the rocket car. Through Disney's negligence, argued Millstone, Higgins is a paraplegic. Twenty-four hundred miles away in Florida, in another Orange County courtroom, an equally sad story was unfolding. While Marietta and Harry Goode listened closely, Lawyer Philip Freidin recounted a tragic 1977 family outing to Disney World during which the couple's four-year-old son slipped away and drowned in the moat in front of Cinderella Castle. The amusement park, charged Freidin, had failed to guard the waterway properly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: No Mickey Mousing Around | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Crystal Oil, a Shreveport, La., refiner, posted the worst performance on the American Stock Exchange, dropping from 14 3/8 to 3 1/4. Healthdyne of Marietta, Ga., a manufacturer of devices that monitor infants for sudden-death syndrome, turned in the largest decline on the over-the-counter market, falling from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Final Score: Investors count their chips | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...months after the marriage, Cunningham, who was now a vice president for planning at Seagram's, and Agee were again in the news. Agee was leading a Bendix attempt to take over Martin Marietta, the defense contractor, and Cunningham was at his side. In the end, Bendix not only failed to get Martin Marietta but was taken over by Allied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crying Foul | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...floor. Though trained as a podiatrist, he never practiced and began work in 1953 as a $75-a-week inspector of radar equipment. He soon questioned the prevailing wisdom that preventing errors was a hopeless goal. By 1961, while a quality manager of the Pershing missile program at Martin Marietta, he conceived the Zero Defects policy, which persuaded workers to sign no-flaw pledges and recognized those with perfect performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Quest of Quality | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

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