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...have so far built nothing greater than 109,000 d.w.t. but Bethlehem Steel and Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock are gearing up to turn out tankers in the 200,000-d.w.t. class. Even those will seem small next to the foreign-built ships of the future. Japan's Nippon Kokan next month will open a dock that can accommodate an 800,000-tonner, and Belfast's Harland & Wolff is constructing a new facility that should be able to handle a million-d.w.t. vessel...
Koji Kobayashi, LL.D., president of Nippon Electric...
...carriers, sharing of maintenance costs has become increasingly common. Airlines flying Boeing 707s utilize the same spare-parts pool. United Airlines in San Francisco services jet aircraft for ten other airlines. In San Diego, "Pacific Southwest Airlines operates a training program for pilots from such lines as Nippon, Alitalia and Braniff...
Katayama was trained in Japan, worked as a director of the Nippon Design Center, and later was with the Geigy Corporation's design studios in Basle--there and in his work here he credits as a pervasive influence the Japanese tradition of katachi, the merger of form and shape, the inseparable attention to both form and process which makes him so perfect a designer of the Thonet exhibit...
...expected to phase out unprofitable manufacture of heavy generators and transformers, concentrate on telecommunications and electronics, in which the company can compete against such foreign firms as ITT and General Telephone & Electronics Corp. of the U.S., Europe's Philips and Siemens A.G. and Japan's Nippon Electric Co. Ltd. "The future," insists the young executive, "lies with the giants." And Arnold Weinstock obviously classes himself with the giants...