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...total of 52 major U.S. firms have plants in Puerto Rico (see map). Last year alone, 160 new factories opened their doors, raising the island's total of "Bootstrap" plants to 1,030. G.E. is producing switches and circuit breakers. Sperry Rand is making electric shavers. Maidenform is making bras, and Brunswick, sporting goods. This summer Ford will open a $15 million precision ballbearing factory near San Juan. To keep the momentum going, Puerto Rico is stretching tax exemptions to 17 years in some cases, plans to build small manufacturing plants on its own, then find companies...
...works such diverse products as fuel oil registers, highway bridges, ferryboats, saltwater anticorrosion systems and new metal alloys. Republic Aviation has signed up to build the British Hovercraft air-cushion vessel in the Western Hemisphere, and Boeing and Grumman are both experimenting with hydrofoil boats. Sperry Rand's defense engineers have produced a machine tool that is run by a computer, and Glendale's Electronic Specialty Co. is diversifying into heating and ventilating equipment. Ampex Corp. has reduced its military business from 62% of sales to 30% by bringing out a new line of hot consumer audio...
Much of the period atmosphere resulted from Leigh Rand's sets, cleverly designed to conquer the traditional producer's nightmare over the small Agassiz Theatre. The cluttered 19th Century stage is recreated with a stream of interlocking flats, while the grim coloring and crooked street patterns set the tone for the action on stage. Lighting by the incomparable Jonathon Warburg shows off the scenery to its best advantage. Period costumes were splendid. Anita Scott must have used some Hogarth drawings as a guide for 1770 decor...
...lawyer who wants to find out what New York state courts have ruled on a particular point will no longer have to plow through shelfloads of books -he can simply ask Sperry Rand's Univac III. A Law Research Service law yer translates the inquiry into a few index words or phrases, puts the information on a punched card and feeds it into the computer. Univac III then scans reels of magnetic tape at the rate of 120,000 cases a minute, swiftly types out the titles of the applicable rulings...
...said the Boston Globe in a particularly moving elegy. "The vigor is no more. The last frontier has been passed. A grief inexpressible in words fills the heart of this nation today." The London Daily Mail mourned "a man the world could not afford to lose"; Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail pronounced Kennedy "one of the greatest leaders of modern times...