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...Frank Nicholas Piasecki was a fast-rising genius. The Philadelphia-born son of a Polish immigrant tailor and graduate of New York University's Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, he developed and in 1943 test-flew the second successful helicopter made in the U.S. (Igor Sikorsky flew the first in 1939.) The same year, Piasecki incorporated his own company to build helicopters and landed a Navy contract...
...Critica dismissed Perón's threats with a question: "Hasn't Panama measured him for a strait jacket yet?" President Pedro Aramburu and his advisers seemed to sense that madman talk by Perón, who is still revered by millions of diehard Peronistas, provided a tailor-made chance to draw a contrast between the erratic ex-dictator and the sober new regime. The government made three moves that sharpened the impression...
Self-Help. In Long Branch, N.J., arrested for stealing $104.23 from parking meters, Tailor Frank A. Tomaini proudly announced that he had taken a correspondence course in keymaking, had devised two keys that would open all of the city's 1,000 meters...
...take an hour to dress, 2) always wear suspenders, 3) in public be gartered, 4) flash at least half an inch of cuff below jacket sleeves, 5) always wear a vest with a single-breasted suit, 6) avoid an excess of jacket padding, 7) get chummy with a good tailor...
...past Ford grants, the money for colleges, along with $200,000,000 for private hospitals and $90,000,000 for medical schools, was earmarked for specific purposes. But for the first time each institution will be allowed to tailor its new income to fit its individual needs...