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...lackey, the featherbrained Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler also adored whistling. His best numbers were Harvard fight songs, which Putzi, a Harvard alumnus, would thump on the piano whenever the Fiihrer was in a frisky mood. After the war, whenever Putzi was asked what Hitler was like, he never failed to marvel how that man could whistle...
...today's communications satellites seem like fast talkers, the next generation will be positively garrulous. Intelsat VI, the 38.7-ft.-long, $100 million marvel of electronics under construction by the Hughes Aircraft Co., will handle as many as 37,000 telephone calls and four television channels simultaneously. The bird's power comes entirely from the sun, whose rays will be captured by 19,000 solar cells encircling the cylindrical satellite and converted directly into electricity...
When the Columbia space shuttle rises from its Kennedy Space Center launch pad this week, some anxious businessmen in the U.S. and Canada will be glued to their television sets, and not just to marvel as the reusable spacecraft's twin Thiokol rockets thrust it up and over the blue Atlantic. The launch, fifth in the Columbia series, will be the first in which the shuttle begins earning money from private, corporate customers for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Accordingly, the company's fortunes have slumped. Though sales were almost $9 billion last year, Xerox no longer monopolizes the market for the marvel it developed, the copier that works using ordinary untreated paper. Japanese and U.S. competitors have shaved the 70% share of the plain-paper copier market that Xerox held a decade ago to about 45% now Earnings for the first half of this year were down to $271 million, off 16% from the same period a year earlier. Security analysts expect that the third quarter, to be reported this week, will also be poor...
...colorful marvel from Kodak...