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Carbon monoxide fumes from a car parked by a ventilating shaft drove members of the Cambridge Ballet Theatre out of the Loeb Drama Center yesterday afternoon...
Married. Martyn Green, 61, ebullient British-born Gilbert and Sullivan star who lost his left leg in an agonizing penknife amputation after it became wedged in an elevator shaft in 1959, but returned to the stage with an artificial limb and danced a jig in Knights of Song; and Yvonne Chauveau, 39, a model; he for the third time, she for the second; in Rowayton, Conn...
...Dykstra likes to jump in and show how to do it. Shortly after joining Ford in 1947 (following stints as factory manager for Hudson and Oldsmobile), Dykstra became chief of the now defunct aircraft engine plant at Chicago. Exasperated by one division's repeated failures to machine propeller shafts to the close tolerances required by the Government contract, he hauled the department chief back to the shop after work, told him to watch, and began to machine a shaft himself. At 5 a.m., with the weary department chief still watching, Dykstra completed the shaft, checked each dimension with...
...darkness to the place where the cylinder had fallen. By the light of a bonfire they pitched a tent over the marked spot. Inside the tent they set up a stove and fed it with empty provision boxes and spare clothes soaked in used lubricants. Foot by foot a shaft sank down through the snow. After 30 hours of continuous work, it was 50 ft. deep, but still no sign of the oxygen cylinder...
...Enthusiasm was lagging," said Sidorov, "when Igor Ivanov and Gleb Nikolayev signaled to be lifted up the shaft. Everybody looked down and saw their smiling faces. Nikolayev was holding a rope, the end of which we knew was attached to the cylinder." After eight more feet of digging, the cylinder itself appeared. It was hurried back to the fast-cooling station and used to weld the base plate. Soon the main diesel was chugging again. Vostok was saved...