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...technological fillip when it was acquired three years ago by Tex Thornton's Litton Industries. Aerojet-General recently bought Jacksonville's Gibbs Shipyards, and General Dynamics last January picked up Bethlehem Steel's huge yard at Quincy, Mass. Lockheed's highly efficient subsidiary in Seattle, Puget Sound Bridge & Dry Dock, has raised its payroll from 600 to 4,000 since 1960, expects that its sales will rise 75% this year, to $76 million...
...citizens who don't like what Bobo is doing to their city's image. Many Seattleites volunteer remedies: "Send Fifi away on a separate vacation," wrote one woman. "It works for me every time. Bobo will love her when she comes back." A man who lives on Puget Sound is so enthusiastic about his own regeneration that he has offered to gather and deliver fresh oysters daily. Zoo Director Frank Vincenzi thinks that a pornographic movie might give Bobo some ideas. Trouble is, no blue film ever made was aimed at the genuine simian market. Fifi needs...
...Oakland, Calif., dialing the world over five telephones on his desk. But he prefers to jet around the globe (200,000 miles last year) inspecting his interests and finding new ways to put Kaiser capital to work. About the only place he relaxes is at his summer home on Puget Sound. Even while Edgar fishes, cruises or detonates fireworks, a plane is always kept ready. "If something comes up," says Kaiser, "I'll be there...
...professor of English at the University of Washington, who built his spare verse upon recollections of his hothouse childhood (his father was a commercial gardener in Saginaw, Mich.), blending the imagery of orchid, loam and garden creature with deceptively simple singsong; of a heart attack; on Bainbridge Island, in Puget Sound, Wash...
...Hereil, 53, father of the Caravelle jetliner, walked out as president of France's nationalized Sud Aviation In disgust over government interference with his plans. To succeed him as boss of the Continent's biggest aircraft producer, the government last week chose Air Force General André Puget, 51, recently eased out as chief of the French General Staff for his foot dragging over De Gaulle's Algerian policy. It will not be smooth going at Sud Aviation either for Puget, a quiet, amiable St.-Cyr graduate. Though Sud Aviation made $8,300,000 last year...