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...Italians comfortably out in front in commerical hydrofoil development is Carlo Rodriquez, 51, a tall, reticent Sicilian engineer whose Spanish ancestors settled in Italy 150 years ago. Since 1958 Rodriquez has turned out 42 hydrofoil ferries at his 500-man Messina shipyard. Today, his aliscafi wing between Venice and Trieste, thread the fjords of Norway, link Caribbean islands, and are about to begin regular service between Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Last year Rodriquez sold $3,100,000 worth of hydrofoils; this year, with $1,800,000 in sales so far, he expects to do substantially better...
Rodriquez, anxious to expand his family's 61-year-old shipyard, bought Lobau out and has kept him at work in Messina ever since...
Falling three miles wide of its target, the vast Mitsubishi shipyard complex, the bomb obliterated one-third of the city, including 18,409 houses, two war plants, six hospitals, a prison, two schools, a church, and an asylum for the blind and dumb. Of the city's 210,000 wartime inhabitants, it killed 38,000, wounded 21,000 others. Among the dead were 40% of Nagasaki's Christian population, which for centuries has been the biggest of any Japanese city; its Oura and Urakami Roman Catholic churches, respectively the oldest and biggest in Japan, were also hit (both...
...Mitsubishi shipyard, which in wartime turned out Japan's super-dreadnoughts Yamato and Musashi, is now the world's largest, and last week was busily expanding in order to build the biggest supertankers (150,000 tons) ever launched. Bustling Nagasaki, reports TIME Correspondent Don Connery, views atom-haunted Hiroshima with wry condescension and a touch of envy. Dr. Soichiro Yokota, director of the city's Atomic Bomb Hospital, sniffs that Hiroshima "is better at propaganda than we are," adding with a smile: "It's also true that Nagasaki is like the man who flew the Atlantic...
...does point with pride to the Bonneville Power Administration, the Hanford Atomic Project, a $9,000,000 federal appropriation for Seattle's 1962 World's Fair, as well as to a healthy share of Government contracts for Seattle's Boeing plant, for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Sand Point Naval Air Station. He speaks of the vast Columbia River Basin reclamation project as though he had built it himself-"This year I put up the Glen Canyon transmission lines." In his tribute last week, former Senator John Kennedy wryly listed Maggie's Senate techniques...