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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite Lockheed's quick start, McDonnell Douglas is grabbing the first-and possibly decisive-foothold in the 1,000-plane airbus market partly because U.S. airlines are still smarting over the performance of Lockheed's last commercial transport, the turboprop Electra. In 1959, Electras began coming apart in midair; Lockheed spent $25 million strengthening structural weaknesses, and the plane has performed splendidly ever since. With the American order in hand, Douglas may have a bargaining edge, too, with airlines such as United, Eastern and Delta, which are also shopping...
Looking ahead to even more difficult days, when jumbo jets carrying as many as 490 passengers start landing, Heathrow has announced a $25 million expansion plan. A T-shaped pier with telescopic ramps, capable of loading and unloading seven giants at a time, will be waiting for the Boeing 747 jets, which should be coming down the runways by December 1969 or early 1970. In addition, passengers are to be whisked to and fro on moving sidewalks that will connect boarding lounges with the airport's departure building and a new arrivals terminal, both situated approximately 300 yards away...
They should encourage renaissances and watch out for reformations "If a corporation suffers from a Luther," concludes Jay, "it should start looking for a Loyola." They should search for signs of stagnation and morbidity. Spain started going to pot under Philip II, but the death rattles of empire were not heard until much later. Singer Sewing Machine Corp was sinking the same way in the 1950s says Jay, until Donald Kircher moved in as president and began reviving it. Jay can find a historical analogy for almost everything about the modern corporation. "The boss's secretary," he observes...
Venus Examined, by Robert Kyle (345 pages; Bernard Geis; $5.95), and The Experiment, by Patrick Skene Catling (317 pages; Trident Press; $5.95), give the reader the astonishingly vivid impression that he is listening to sex manuals being read aloud to the thousand strings of Mantovani. Both start with almost identical premises, suggested no doubt by the success of the Kinseyesque novel The Chapman Report and the Masters-Johnson scientific study Human Sexual Response...
Levin's principals are Gore Taylor, a young American protest singer, and Igor Mikhailovitch, a young Russian protest poet, who meet in Israel as the Six-Day War is about to start. So Gore drives this fantastic ambulance, and Igor fixes a Russian tank captured from the Arabs. They become great buddies, of course, while a lot of studs get their brains shot out. But mainly, the war as here described amid all this profound Israeli scenery is like everybody squirting beer on each other at a fraternity picnic. All the action moves along double time, like a fast...