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...Douglas Aircraft reorganized its divisional structure and closed its costly El Segundo, Calif., plant to score a profit increase in the face of a sales decline...
...along the lower Yukon, Eskimos in sealskin mukluks last week mushed their snarling dog teams to a place called Alakanuk-which means, in Eskimo, "It's a mistake."* They came to tell their political problems to a priest, for the Rev. Segundo Llorente, S.J., has just been elected to Alaska's state legislature, the first Roman Catholic priest to hold elected legislative office in a U.S. state...
...wanted to be a missionary," he says. "I just put an atlas in front of me and I spotted Alaska. A kid feels very holy. I thought, 'Christ died for me on the Cross, so I'll die for him in the snow.'" (Segundo's brother Armando, also a Jesuit missionary, is serving in the sun as a student adviser in Castro's Havana University...
...miles of the 100-mile race). ¶Edward H. Heinemann, 52, quit as vice-president in charge of Douglas Aircraft's European Division to become executive vice president at Summers Gyroscope, a major maker of guidance systems for missiles. As chief engineer at Douglas' giant El Segundo plant from 1936 to 1958, Heinemann won fame as the exponent of clean, uncluttered aircraft, designed such famous Navy aircraft as the Skyraider attack bombers and the Dauntless dive bombers. ¶E. Clinton Towl, 54, succeeded the late Leon A. Swirbul as president of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. Towl...
...Teletype-lined room at Space Technology Laboratories in El Segundo. Calif, gathered a group of tense men. There was a chance that the big transmitter might malfunction and that in its failure it might silence completely its five-watt companion, leaving Pioneer V with no voice at all. Before being sent into space, the big transmitter had been tested rigorously. It had been shaken, spun, heated and cooled. It had survived all such tortures, but no test on earth could duplicate the hostile environment of space...