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...second largest outboard-engine maker (after Outboard Marine of Waukegan, Ill.), has fired or furloughed 1,150 of some 2,600 workers at its local plant. Cutbacks have also taken place at Wells Manufacturing Corp., a maker of auto-ignition parts, Sterling Custom Homes Corp., a producer of prefab dwellings, and Combination Door Co., which turns out components for houses. Ray Wittkop, 59, had been with Mercury Marine for 40 years. He says dejectedly: "They called me in at 11 o'clock one day and said that they were retiring me. There hadn't been any inkling...
...slump. And Fenway Park has a life of its own--like the hotel in Stanley Kubrick's latest flick, it "shines." Small enough to afford a good view of the action from any seat in the house. Fenway has a communal quality all too uncommon in these days of prefab stadia. One caveat, though: Fenway franks also "shine"; avoid them at all costs...
During the building battle, Bishop Ignacy Tokarczuk of Przemysl called on the people to "break the line of fear." No Catholic in his diocese, he decided, should have to walk more than 2½ miles to church. Starting in the mid-1960s, his parishioners would secretly assemble small, prefab churches, then put them together overnight without permission. In the morning the authorities would be presented with an act of faith accompli. A day came when the bishop was led off to be fined at the prosecutor's office for his actions, but such a noisy phalanx of Catholic housewives...
...Your wife knows what you are. Your kids know what you are . . ." But how far can he push it? Collins goes to the man's house. The TV is blaring, Merv Griffith is ranting about Jacqueline Susanne, a great artist. He wanders through the suspiciously quiet house--a prefab chalet sitting in Vancouver. Can he collect? How much is all this hype worth? How far are you willing to push...
...first combat jet, but Hitler stalled its production until the Third Reich's final days. Held in custody for two years after the war, and like other German aircraft makers forced to observe a ten-year Allied ban on production, Messerschmitt turned to building sewing machines, prefab houses and three-wheel midget autos. In the early 1950s he again began to design planes, first in Spain for Franco and later in Germany...