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...after Discoverer's capsule dropped back toward earth at an electronic command. Captain Mitchell picked up radio signals and spotted its brightly colored parachute, dead ahead at 16,000 ft. Under his fuselage, in an inverted V, hung twin 38-ft. booms; between them, trapeze-fashion, stretched a nylon rope and a grappling hook with which Mitchell hoped to foul the cords of Discoverer's parachute, snag its canopy. Winch operators would then take over, reel the dangling capsule into the plane. At 12,000 ft. Mitchell made a pass-and missed by a breathtaking...
Died. Salvatore Ferragamo, 62, style-setting Italian shoemaker for women and the originator of the wedge heel, platform sole and nylon "invisible shoe," an apprentice cobbler at the age of 9, who eventually came to employ 600 craftsmen in three factories (including a $175,000, 13th century palace in Florence) hand-producing 60,000 pairs of shoes annually for a well-heeled clientele including Queen Elizabeth II and Greta Garbo; of a heart attack; in Fiumetto, Italy...
...Sharon, 12, and Bruce, 8, packed into the wilds of Lower Lipstick Lake, 250 miles north of San Francisco and less than four miles from the ranch house of Boyd's friend J. D. Proctor. With them they carried salt, an ax, five knives, 50 ft. of nylon rope, toothbrushes, a ball of twine and-for emergencies-a sealed rifle, a flashlight and a first...
...people who do not want Communist rule and would also "write off any faith in our support of Far Eastern countries" trying to maintain the ideals of the free world. "American policy," he felt, "has often helped Peking by hiding the bamboo curtain on the Chinese side with a nylon curtain on the American side...
When his postwar rayon market faded as low-priced nylon came out and consumer tastes shifted, he bought his way into cottons and nylon hosiery. From 1952 to 1958 Love bought 18 key companies-often for a mere fraction of their real values. Last week, eying a new market, he was close to closing a deal to buy a major maker of carpets...