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Reischel, the smallest man in Harvard's starting line at 5-10 and 135 pounds, played more minutes than any other member of the team as Harvard compiled a 6-3 record last fall...
Like racehorse breeders, E.A.A. members keep telling themselves they are improving the breed. On exhibit in the E.A.A.'s new museum near Milwaukee is "the world's smallest plane," designed by Ray Stits of Riverside, Calif., which has a wing spread of only 7 ft. 2 in. but can make 185 m.p.h. Another E.A.A. member built his own single-seat helicopter, flew it 500 miles from Missouri to Rockford, Ill., last summer. In the words of an admiring E.A.A. member, it must have been like "soaring across the country astride a dining-room chair...
...balistique-strategique, or ground-to-ground-ballistic-strategic), to be lodged in hard-base silos in France. With a range of 1,800 miles, the two-stage SSBS missile will pack a warhead in the megaton range, making it roughly the equivalent of the already operational Polaris missile, smallest of the U.S. strategic rockets...
Pricing Advantage. In the midst of the scramble sits the only major steel company with its headquarters and entire production facilities in the Chicago area: Inland Steel. The smallest of the industry's Big Eight, Inland has long benefited from its proximity to Midwest steel consumers. Sixty percent of its output is sold within 100 miles of Chicago, and practically none is shipped more than 400 miles away. This provides Inland with pricing and delivery-time advantages over distant Eastern mills, and has contributed to its enviable earnings record. The company was eighth in steel production during the first...
Operating from a provincial company town in the nation's second smallest state, Du Pont has not only brought all this-and much else-to pass, but yearly piles more millions onto one of the greatest and most enduring U.S. family fortunes-a fortune that now amounts to $3 billion, give or take a few hundred million. Of the 1,500 living Du Ponts, 27 occupy executive positions in the company and more than 150 have sizable stakes in it. The Du Ponts turn out so many goods in so many places that their influence is even greater than...