Word: suds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Late last month, mercurial Planemaker Georges Hereil, 53, father of the Caravelle jetliner, walked out as president of France's nationalized Sud Aviation In disgust over government interference with his plans. To succeed him as boss of the Continent's biggest aircraft producer, the government last week chose Air Force General André Puget, 51, recently eased out as chief of the French General Staff for his foot dragging over De Gaulle's Algerian policy. It will not be smooth going at Sud Aviation either for Puget, a quiet, amiable St.-Cyr graduate. Though Sud Aviation made...
...only other jet maker in reasonably healthy shape is France's Sud-Aviation, which has already sold or contracted to sell 150 of its medium-range Caravelles and. with the aid of a husky government subsidy, should hit break-even well short of 200. Even subsidies have not turned the trick for Britain's jet manufacturers. De Havilland, which led the world with the original, ill-starred Comet, has sold only 63 of the redesigned Comet IVs. has scant hope of reaching its estimated break-even point of 80-90 sales. Vickers, which hopes to have its long...
...Governor Stevenson by Robert Boulay I June 61 correspond to nothing anyone else has ever heard Stevenson say publicly or privately. Governor Stevenson is fully and explicitly on record on the question of Ber lin. It might conceivably strain the credulity even of TIME to suppose that he would sud-denlv choose to confide to an itinerant French newspaperman views on Berlin which are incompatible with everything else he has said on the subject...
...work, and the reports soon come to the attention of the big boss (Fred MacMurray) himself. "Baxter," he confides to the hero, "as far as I'm concerned, you're executive material"-he wants the key too. Before long the hero is an assistant to the boss. Sud denly he discovers that he has outsmarted himself: the girl (Shirley MacLaine) that the boss takes to his apartment is the girl of his dreams, the girl he cannot enjoy his illgot gains without...
...costs of its DC-8, has thus taken its licks early and is in a good competitive position to profit on jet sales from now on. The company also has plenty of cash ($35 million) and working capital ($154 million), and recently tied up with France's Sud-Aviation (TIME, Feb. 22) to market the twin-jet Caravelle, thus enabling itself to cover both the long-and short-range jet field...