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...gave his boat four more feet of waterline than customary for a 40-footer, obeying a simple logic: a longer waterline tends to make a boat faster. He then hung an immense 700 sq. ft. of sail above, counterbalancing it with a deep three-ton fin keel, while keeping the boat's underbelly flat for speed off the wind. Instead of streamlining the rudder into the keel, he stuck a spade-shaped rudder well aft, which gives such strong leverage that a twelve-year-old child has handled a Cal-40 in 40-knot winds. The bold tinkering gives...
...what modern busi ness was all about. In 1956, with the encouragement of the Michigan Council of Churches, he set up the Detroit Industrial Mission. Now there are simi lar missions in ten cities, linked by a national committee that last month held its first organizational meeting in Bos ton, coaxed Father White into accepting its executive directorship. Worth Loomis, a Presbyterian layman, is permanent president of the committee...
...than Italy or Britain, more politically friendly than France, and farther from the Iron Curtain than West Germany. In the hunt for new business, Antwerp since 1956 has spent $100 million to clear industrial sites and double its harbor capacity, plans to have the port ready for 100,000-ton supertankers by 1970.*Belgium also gives foreign businessmen low-cost financing, tax holidays up to five years, and a minimum of government interference. As a result, the Washington-based Atlantic Council of blue-ribbon U.S. business and political leaders rates the country's investment climate as "perhaps the best...
...most current versions of Christianity," marveled the Daily Telegraph. While the refined may shudder at Billy's lowbrow mass-appeal methods, declared the Times, "new and potent techniques of persuasion are there to be used for either good or ill. And a church which comprehends pop services and ton-up* parsons has no cause to be overnice about Mr. Graham's methods...
...Vertical Assembly Building slid slowly open. Inside the eight-acre, 52-story structure, the locomotive-size diesel engines of a giant crawler-transporter thundered into life. Positioned underneath the 36-story Saturn rocket and its umbilical tower-which were supported on six steel columns-the 2,750-ton crawler then gently raised its platform until it had lifted the rocket and tower. Then it ponderously moved its 6,000-ton cargo through the door, over a concrete apron that had been slicked down with 200 Ibs. of soap, and onto an eight-lane rock-paved "crawlerway" that...