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...State Treasurer of Texas: "The first thing I thought of was not winning, in the political sense, but of my two daughters. To think of the numbers of young women who can now aspire to anything!" At a National Organization for Women press conference in Washington, Democratic Leader Sharon Pratt Dixon was so carried away that she started to pronounce the name of the head of the ticket as "Walter Ferra..." She corrected it to Walter Mondale amid a gale of laughter...
Assists: S. Tim Nelson 4. Brad Kolz, Brad Lunblad, Todd Curry 3. Gordy Mapes 2. Dan Pratt. "Mark Burnham, Matt Holman 1. H. none...
...company has made a series of design improvements over the years; recently added features include a new control system and a safer and longer-lasting main fuel pump. Both General Electric and Pratt & Whitney had lobbied hard to win the contract. While GE officials disparaged their competitor as "Brand X," Pratt & Whitney executives dismissed GE as the "lightbulb company." Last week Pratt & Whitney proclaimed in a full-page newspaper ad that the F100 was "a new bench mark for fighter engine reliability and durability." One battle in the Great Fighter Engine War is over, but the fighting is sure...
...CHRISTOPHER J. Dodd (D-Conn.) called it "the Great Engine War." "A great victory for Massachusetts, for the Air Force, and for the American taxpayer," countered Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). "An insult to Pratt and Whitney, its employees, and the American taxpayer" was the way Rep. Barbara Kennelly (D-Conn.) phrased...
...cause of all this uproar last week was the government's decision to award approximately 75 percent of Navy and Air Force fighter engine contracts to the General Electric company (GE). The Pratt and Whitney subsidiary of United Technologies (UT) had previously been the sole supplier of the F-15 and F-16 Air Force fighter engines, and the F-14 Navy engine. Surprise, surprise--Sen. Dodd's and Rep, Kennelly's home state of Connecticut also happens to be the home of Pratt and UT, while much of the new GE business will be done in Lynn, Mass...