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...university spokesman said that Marine Pfc. Thomas Pratt, 22, left the chapel voluntarily, joined his family, and was taken to the Marine Barracks at Boston Naval Yard. An unidentified Marine captain who talked with Pratt said the man "became disenchanted with the circus atmosphere" among anti-war groups in the chapel...
Shortly after Pratt left the chapel, B.U. officials received a telephone call saying that a bomb had been put into the building. The second serviceman--Army Pfc. Raymond Kroll, 18--and the divinity students supporting him left the chapel, which the police bomb squad then searched...
...stable as Fairchild's has been shaky, announced the Oct. 1 retirement at 65 of Chairman Horace Mansfield Horner, only the second boss that the huge aerospace company has had since it was founded 34 years ago. "Jack" Horner is the son of an early backer of Pratt & Whitney, United's creator. An engineer (Yale '26), he joined the engine maker right after graduation, when it had 80 employees and heady plans to build an aircraft engine called the Wasp. A high-performance engine for those days, the 425-h.p. Wasp was an immediate success and helped...
ANDREW S. PRATT...
Electric and Pratt & Whitney; the Rolls RB-211 turbofan was the engineers' choice because of efficiency and lower noise levels. But at $2,500,000 a plane, the British-made engines meant a $235 million drain on the U.S. balance of payments. Lockheed solved this with an arrangement in which Ah" Holdings will sell 50 of the early L-1011s abroad. This will bring in $625 million for a favorable U.S. balance of $390 million, and further sales in a market estimated at 1,000 planes by 1980 could raise the U.S. excess to well over $5 billion dollars...