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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orbit, for example, OGO-3 developed a control-mechanism failure and has since operated at only 75% efficiency. But overall, the OGOs have been a resounding success. By week's end, OGO-4 was performing without a sign of trouble. At TRW's Redondo Beach, Calif., plant, scientists and engineers are testing OGO-5 and building OGO-6, both of which will be sent up next year. The entire program will cost about $150 million-mere pennies, considering the dragonflies' scientific achievements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geophysics: Dragonflies in Space | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...Marcus talked to me twice on the telephone and, in fact, visited our Lexington plant last week to obtain a copy of our technical report on the analysis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ITEK ANALYSIS | 8/8/1967 | See Source »

Before World War II, Bayerische Motoren Werke was famous as a maker of motorcycles and racing cars. During the war, the Munich plant produced airplane engines for the Junker bombers and for Hitler's jet fighter, the Messerschmitt ME 262. In 1947, after the U.S. Army stopped using BMW's shops to repair its tanks, the company started making motorcycles again, and began looking around for a car design as well. Misjudging the market, BMW decided on an eight-cylinder luxury job which cost so much to build that it lost money from the start. Simultaneously, the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: New Class on the Autobahn | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...management phased out the old models to concentrate on the New Class category, sold BMW's interest in an airplane-engine plant to put all resources behind the new car and motorcycles. In 1962, the company sold 43,000 cars and 4,300 motorcycles. Last year sales were 71,274 and 9,071 respectively. For Hahnemann, a stocky man who wears slacks and an open shirt to board meetings, it is all good fun. He says: "I bring a sportsman's attitude to business. Business is a game for sportsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: New Class on the Autobahn | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

Flair for Marketing. That was before an enterprising Spaniard named Isaac Carasso began turning it out commercially during World War I. In 1929, in Paris, he opened a plant named Danone for his son Daniel, and called its product "the Dessert of Happy Digestion." Success was modest until the mid-1950s, when Danone caught the public fancy. In 1958, in the Paris suburb of Plessis-Robinson, Danone opened the world's largest yogurt factory, where 350 workers are able to turn out 1,600,000 pots (211,000 quarts) of yogurt a day, seven times as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Big Yogurt Binge | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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