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...General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth, one of Cincinnati Milacron's T-3 robots makes sheet-metal parts for the F-16 fighter. The T-3 selects bits from a tool rack, drills a set of holes to a .005-in. tolerance and machines the perimeters of 250 types of parts. A man doing the same job can produce six parts per shift, with a 10% rejection rate. The robot makes 24 to 30 parts, with zero rejections. The machine costs over $60,000 and has saved $93,000 in its first year...
...adds this: "O.K., take out a sheet of paper; we'll see who read the assignment last night...
...chronicle the family stories. The New York Post wanted to fly the Morefields to Wiesbaden, West Germany, if a Post staffer could go with them. One family turned down $10,000 and travel expenses to West Germany from a "media corporation of international reputation, definitely not a scandal sheet," in exchange for exclusive story rights. LIFE has offered to pay the airfare to the reunion for the five brothers and sisters of Hostage James Lopez of Globe, but with no strings attached. Keough has accepted a flight to Wiesbaden from Boston's NBC affiliate, WBZ-TV. The Boston Globe...
...astonishingly boring discussions of real estate deals but also for some very pleasant living. So do the parks, like Montrose and Rock Creek. So do the ball fields and tennis courts (available). The city's most famous structures have always held a special power: Lincoln, white as a sheet, looking out from his inappropriate throne across the Reflecting Pool (drained now for repairs) toward the Washington Monument; the monument itself, an elongated ghost, ringed by schoolchildren, peering over the city as if to check on its prosperity...
...foot cross, which had been soaked in gasoline, was set alight on the side lawn of Percy House, a dormitory. Several students reported seeing someone running from the area covered in a white sheet about 10:20 p.m., the time of the incident