Word: motorizer
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...race day, he is resting in the team motor home, driving shoes off, blue driving suit unzipped, the neck of his white Nomex long Johns showing. He is thin through the hips, and thinner through the shoulders than when he played the arrogant cowboy stud Hud in an undershirt. He has no belly, although he drinks several cans of Budweiser a day (he has not drunk hard liquor since a boozy period at the beginning of the '70s when he was shooting Sometimes a Great Notion). A daily sauna and a three-mile run seem to take care...
...when it came to getting the politically potent missile off the ground, Murphy's law prevailed. At its debut last July at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the first-stage motor malfunctioned, and after 17 seconds the missile exploded. The motor was redesigned, and a new version installed. At the second test, at White Sands on Nov. 4, the signal to turn on the missile's on-board batteries failed, promptly shutting down the Pershing and keeping it earthbound. Strike 3 came on Nov. 13 at White Sands, when an electrical connection blew out, and the test was postponed while...
...third quarter were down by about 21% on average from the same period a year ago. Many recession-battered firms in such bedrock industries as mining, steel and autos suffered stunning losses. Aluminum Co. of America ran a $14 million deficit, Bethlehem Steel Corp. lost $209 million, and Ford Motor Co. $325 million...
...solid for launches beginning late next year and running through 1985. Meanwhile, a no-frills private-enterprise launching service, Space Services Inc., successfully tested a launch rocket last summer at Matagorda Island, Texas. The prototype rocket, dubbed Conestoga I, was built in part from spare NASA assemblies, including the motor from a solid-fuel Minuteman missile. The firm's owners now plan to go into commercial service in 1984, with monthly launches starting two years later. With space technology rapidly advancing and the competition for launches beginning to perk up, prices may start dropping out of orbit long before...
...final fate of De Lorean Motor Co., which made its sports cars at a plant in Northern Ireland, remains in doubt. De Lorean allegedly engineered the cocaine deal to save the company from financial collapse. Last week DMC lawyers in Michigan filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy laws to protect the company's major U.S. assets-650 cars worth $ 13 million or so-from an onslaught of perhaps 700 creditors. At week's end an Ohio-based company, Consolidated International Inc., reached agreement with British officials to buy some 1,000 unsold cars in Ulster...