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DIED. Robert E. Dixon, 75, retired rear admiral who as a Navy pilot in World War II radioed the famous message, "Scratch one flattop," that signaled the sinking of the first Japanese carrier by American warplanes; of cancer; in Virginia Beach, Va. In May 1942 Dixon commanded dive-bomber squadron V52 when 93 American planes attacked the light carrier Shoho during the Battle of the Coral...
...been expected. Adapting to the new techniques was initially difficult, but now many of the draftsmen disdain the traditional drawing board. Says Ron Hendricks, 25, a Koltanbar draftsman: "I prefer what we have now. It takes everything out of drawing that was tedious. We never have to start from scratch any more." Adds one of his co-workers happily: "Once you learn how to use the system, it's great." Koltanbar's principal customer seems to think so too. At the GMC Truck & Coach Division plant in Pontiac, Mich., where the company is producing trucks, Koltanbar-designed robots...
...world that remains is dark, damp, and overgrown, peopled with primitive hunter-gatherers and horrible mutants. The language, too, has undergone a mutation: in Hoban's version of English reinvented from scratch, spelling, sentence-structure, and vocabulary have all taken on a childlike spontaniety and simplicity...
...finding ways to make do with less. In Gary, Ind., prices of lunch for high school students who pay have increased from 60? to 85?; savings have been made by firing administrators, reducing kitchen-staff hours and changing food-preparation methods to increase the amount of food made from scratch in school kitchens...
Today the land around Patallacta is powder-dry and barren. Fifteen families barely scratch a living from the soil, and almost nothing can be grown for the entire five-month dry season. How, then, did this unforgiving land once provide for so many people? The answer is etched into the granite hills around the valley: dozens of stone canals snake their way down from glacier-fed streams in the upper altitudes...