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...Motor Sports Club recently elected Peter G. Sachs '61, of Kirkland House and Stamford, Conn., president for next year. Other members of the new executive committee are Rosslyn P. Harris '61, of Eliot House and Litchfield, Conn., vice-president, and J. Grey Jones, Jr. '61, of Eliot House and St. Louis, Mo., secretary-treasurer...
...gyroscopes, it gave Discoverer II a continuous sensing of its motion and attitude in space. When the second-stage rocket separated, the inertial-reference package squirted jets of high-pressure helium out of orifices in the rocket's side, bringing it to a horizontal attitude. Then the rocket motor fired, driving the second stage into an orbit...
General Electric's first-quarter profits were up 7% over last year, announced Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner, to 60? a share v. 56? in 1958. Ford Motor Co. reported the best first-quarter and the second-best quarter in its history, rang up consolidated earnings of $2.46 a share v. 55? last year. Du Font's President Crawford H. Greenewalt told stockholders that the company's first-quarter earnings increased "perhaps 70%" on a 22% rise in sales. Said Greenewalt: "In 1959, sales will be substantially ahead of those realized in 1958 and will perhaps establish...
...cylinder, 40-h.p. single-seater not much bigger than the dragonfly for which it was named. Last week De Bernardi heard that a group of aviation experts had collected at a Roman airport to watch some German pilots demonstrate a new light plane. Hopping on his motor scooter, he zipped out to the field, took to the air in his Dragonfly, stunted breathtakingly for 15 minutes. "You can't beat him," said an onlooking friend. "He's got the heart of a 20-year-old." But in the air Mario de Bernardi was feeling the attack that killed...
...good many now-familiar characteristics of Mr. Poto and his orchestra; the out-of-tune winds, the unclear articulation in the strings, the surprising power in forte passages; the clear, business-like beat of the conductor. Given these conditions, the last movement, with its big tuttis and its motor energy, came off best; delicate, involved sections fared less well. It was the performance of a good amateur orchestra which has a good grasp of technical problems and frequently produces fine sound, but which has difficulty in conveying the spirit of the music...