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All over Sweden factories are going underground. The firm of Bolinder-Munktell, manufacturers of engines, housed itself in a cave shelter shortly after World War II. More important, the Swedes discovered that building underground-in terms of construction and maintenance-often costs less. Airplanes, precision instruments, munitions, radios are also...
Several Gary high schools offer four years of ROTC for credit. The course is intended to "develop habits of orderliness and precision, discipline and respect for constituted authority, patriotism and honorable deportment; and to develop understanding and appreciation of the Army in its role of defense and of the opportunities...
Maserati is an industrial concern of Modena, Italy, which has established an outstanding reputation as a manufacturer of precision tools and automobiles. Your statements that Maserati President Adolfo Orsi owed Credito Italiano, an Italian bank, $15,600, that he wrote a check with no funds to cover it and that...
Alphabet Soup. NORAD, under the command of Four-Star Air Force General Earle Partridge, is a joint U.S.-Canadian venture (Partridge's second in command is Canada's Air Marshal C. Roy Slemon) with Air Force, Army and Navy each marked out for specific assignments, e.g., the Navy...
What did the kids (average age: 23) have? Most obviously, boundless energy, meshed-gear precision, dramatic flair, sheer physical virtuosity. In superbly mounted national folk dances and "popular ballets" (original works on contemporary Russian themes), the men soared above the stage in spring-legged leaps that seemed to pin them...