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...Turbine blades were a few critical microns too large; they scraped their housing and cracked. It required $3 million to put the blades right. Electric Boat insists that it was not at fault, since the turbine was built by General Electric directly for the Government. Indeed, the project is ripe for buck passing; a score of major contractors are involved, and the Navy once had ten officers nominally managing Trident, none with overall authority...
Conoco is not the only resource-rich firm that is ripe for acquisition. High interest rates have depressed the price of stocks, including the shares in many energy and mineral companies. Speculators suffering from what Wall Streeters call the Conoco syndrome are now swarming to buy shares of corporations they think will be the next takeover targets. Their favorites seem to be medium-size oil companies. In the past two weeks, the price of Cities Service stock has surged by 12%, Marathon Oil shares by 19% and Kerr-McGeeby...
...performed not because of the plot, which set a high standard of treachery and lubricity, but because of the special demands of Baroque convention, which included the casting of castrati in principal roles. Further, the musical idiom of early 17th century opera sounds strange to audiences accustomed to the ripe lyricism of Bellini, Verdi and Puccini...
...pick up steam during the 1950s. The attitude of most college students was one of concerned interest, but they expressed almost none of the spirit of activism. "I would sense that few of us knew much about Blacks, but there was a great sense of social duty. We were ripe for a civil rights movement," Rosenthal says. An important catalyst was the 1954 Supremem Court decision, Brown versus the Board of Education, which enlarged many of the issues for the Cambridge denizens...
...essays a few that are not attached to her name, like The Surrey with the Fringe on Top. When she begins Rodgers and Hart's Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, a premonitory shudder passes through the theater. She does not disappoint, and the words-"I'm a rich, ripe, ready plum again"-are not sung but caressed, as if they were old friends, which they clearly are. Sixty-four next month, Horne has not only been around, she has been all around for a long, long time...