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...production at its Marietta plant, the contract makes Boeing virtually the sole supplier of medium (B-47, KC-97 tankers) and heavy (B-52) planes for the Air Force. It was also good news for United Aircraft Corp., which will supply some $180 million worth of J57 Pratt & Whitney engines for the tankers, and for some 8,000 Boeing suppliers. For Boeing, it assures high-level production into 1958-and another big step toward being the first U.S. aircraft company with a commercial jet airliner. Airline operators guessed that the Air Force would let Boeing take orders for commercial transports...
...Although only Team Captain Charley Pratt won an individual event (60-yd. high hurdles), Manhattan College's trackmen ran off with enough third places to take the 34th annual intercollegiate A.A.A.A. championship. Deciding event: the two-mile relay (won by Syracuse U.), in which Manhattan's anchor man, Tom Lindgren, took time out between heats to rush his pregnant wife to a hospital,* came back to help earn a vital third. Final scores: Manhattan 27, Villanova 22½, Penn State...
Commenting at the Chicago panel on statements from Yale and Princeton which asserted their no-expansion policies, Francis H. Horn, president of the Pratt Institute, said: "This is sheer nonsense unless you admit that Yale or Princeton already has a diluted form of education . . . I think they still have a highly selective group...
...philanthropist, famed for his efforts to improve rural medical facilities throughout the New England area; in Miami Beach. In the 1920s and '30s Bingham gave away $3,000,000, much of it for the organization and support of the Bingham Associates Fund and Boston's Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Hospital to make metropolitan medical facilities available to country doctors...
Hurdler Charlie Pratt, two-miler Bob Sharra, and 1000-man Bob Goodwin have established Manhattan as another championship possibility. Last year the Jaspers were third, only two points behind Yale...