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...scheduled première night of the Ypsilanti Greek Theater last week, there was a plywood stage covering the infield and classic columns standing in front of the bases of the Eastern Michigan University ball park. From the home-team dugout, a 16-piece orchestra played eerie music, specially composed by Iannis Xenakis, while 1,500 gowned and black-tied first-nighters took their blue-cushioned seats in the weather-beaten grandstand. The guests included Broadway Actress Rosemary Harris and a clutch of local politicians, but this was one première where it was more important to see than...
...Even in plywood, it is a dazzling entry in the race for the richest prize in aviation history, $25 billion in plane-building business over the next 30 years. The 2000 is designed to cruise at 65,000 ft., whisk up to 266 travelers at the 1,800-m.p.h. speed of a rifle bullet. It would fly across the U.S. in 2 hr. 10 min. or from New York to Paris in 2 hr. 45 min.* The design draws on Lockheed's extensive experience with supersonic military planes, and engineers have added two safety-boosting innovations. The hinged nose...
...answer lies in family history. Evans' father, a Virginia lumber dealer, made millions by inventing and manufacturing a wooden wedge to secure the wheels of autos shipped by train. He founded Evans Products Co., broadened it into one of the country's big suppliers of plywood and railroad loading equipment. Six years ago, the family lost control to West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon, who specializes in moving into and reorganizing limping corporations...
Disqualified Buyers. On top of all that, builders are being hit by rising prices of such items as copper pipe, aluminum windows, lumber and plywood and, in some areas, by shortages of construction labor. The resulting cost increases, as well as higher interest rates, will disqualify some prospective home buyers because FHA will require proportionately higher incomes to meet the higher monthly payments. Six months ago, Miami Builder Ken Laurence was selling a $12,500 model with a total monthly payment of $74, including taxes and insurance; last week, with the interest tab up ½% and maximum FHA terms sliced...
...during the white nights," he has recalled, Gabo returned again and again to "questions of space and time and to a search for means of expressing them." He soon found it. In 1915 he constructed a head from intersecting planes of colored cardboard, later translated it into plywood, sheet metal and plastic...