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...most curious craft ever launched. Floating in the lee of two massive unfinished cargo ships, the contraption was shaped like a midget's pagoda with a giant's spoon balanced across the pinnacle. On cue, a small motor inside the bright yellow and white plywood superstructure began pumping sea water into the bowl of the spoon. As the bowl filled, it dipped down until, with a splash, it dumped 26 gallons of water back into the bay. Empty, the lightened bowl swung up again, and a brass "sound cone," hanging off the other end of the 15-foot...
Students from a Soc. Rel. 136 section yesterday transformed the dull, dark brown plywood wall concealing Harvard Hall into an bit of psychedelia...
...repayment of the loan and to cover its interest, the Russians over a five-year period will ship 8,020,000 cubic feet of timber to Japan. With housing chronically short in Japan and with U.S. West Coast suppliers restricting sales of logs to the Japanese to protect domestic plywood sources, the Siberian timber agreement is a coup...
...such shifts become more common, many companies are taking extra pains to keep their executives happy. To protect its executives from high taxes on immediate income, U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers, for one, has taken to offering them deferred compensation. One of the best at holding onto its executives is General Motors, which is forever shifting them into new jobs. But not even the best can avoid losing an occasional man, as evidenced when Executive Vice President Semon E. ("Bunky") Knudsen, passed over for G.M.'s presidency, quit last winter to become president of Ford Motor...
...elevator that wasn't there, and the fall broke both his legs. In the course of his six-months' hospitalization he meditated and discovered his true bent. Today he first sketches his ideas on paper, next lays out a full-scale model in string, finally orders the plywood and starts cutting. (His wife Jackie helps with the sanding.) He delights in astonishing architects with his uncanny ability to defy the laws of gravity. "I work very intuitively," he says. "I'm not a mathematician. I start with an illogical idea and try to make it work...