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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work force at the Missile Development, Rocketdyne and Autonetics divisions in the Los Angeles area-10,000 employees in all. While the Navaho cut will not affect North American's balance sheet greatly in its current fiscal year (ending Sept. 30), it will mean a 15% or more reduction in the company's $1 billion annual sales in future years unless the company finds a replacement soon...
...mean to question the critics' verdict on Huston's performance. It was probably no more than good, especially since Huston had to play opposite a poor Iago; whereas Hyman's is a great performance. What I am questioning is their evaluation of Huston's conception (and there is a big difference between conception and performance). Huston's conception was right then; all the critics and most of the audience were wrong. Hyman's conception is right now; a few of the critics and audience are wrong...
...Motel, which rents 70 of its 87 units to missilemen from Convair, North American Aviation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, A.C. Spark Plug, the practiced observer at after-the-shoot cocktail parties can tell from the demeanor of his hosts how the shoot has gone. Smiles among the Convair group might mean a promising static-test day for the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, frowns among the North American missile monkeys might show a bad day for the Navaho intercontinental air-breather...
...Street between Mount Hymmittos and pine-covered Lycabettus Hill. At a press conference in Athens, Gropius calmed the remaining fears. "Athens is a sacred place," he said. "We did our best to connect the city's traditions with our own architectural concepts. But keeping the tradition does not mean to imitate...
...went on to say that this demand for quality did not mean that an increase in enrollment of students was impossible, since the number of able ones would rise in proportion to the number of admissions...