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...Vertol employed 13,900 people to make 30 helicopters a month; by last year employment had sunk to 5,500 and production to two aircraft a month. Sikorsky's employment plunged from 11,000 to 6,200 in the same period, and its plant in 1976 was working at only 22% of capacity; for the first time since it started manufacturing helicopters 37 years ago, the company did not have a single Government contract. As the companies' fortunes declined, so did those of the decaying industrial river valleys in which they are camped. Unemployment hovers at about...
Play also became more physical in a basically cleancut game that saw only 12 turnovers. The cagers trailed 53-47 after Hooft sunk an off-balance ten footer. The Crimson drew within two with just over a minute remaining when Irion followed Hill's bucket with a jumper off of a rebound...
Yale finally sunk the Crimson when Eli guard Gavin Jackson toed the foul line with 26 seconds reamining. Harvard coach Buddy O'Neil put pressure on Jackson by calling for a break in play to let the Bulldog ponder his attempts. But Jackson was not affected by the brief pause and canned two free-throws to shelve the fresh-men, whose record now rests...
...American citizen visiting Tokyo who was interned by the Japanese during the war and forced, she claimed, to go on the air. Several defense witnesses attested that this was true, but because D'Aquino had asked the G.I.s how they would get home "now that your ships are sunk," she was convicted of treason in 1949 after her return to the U.S. She served more than six years in prison, then moved to Chicago where she has been managing an Oriental import shop. Three times she has asked for a presidential pardon-"a measure of vindication." On his last...
...Agency did a purposeful job of disclosing as little information as possible. In a series of briefings, then CIA Director William Colby confided to reporters that the U.S. had used a large vessel, reportedly built for Howard Hughes, to try to retrieve a 1961-vintage Soviet submarine that had sunk northwest of Hawaii. Unfortunately, the Golf-class sub cracked apart as it was being hoisted. Only the forward third was recovered. Colby did not say what it contained, but any knowledgeable person would expect that it housed torpedoes and perhaps other valuable materials. The mid-and aft sections, containing...