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Sometimes known as "Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent" because of early technical problems and its droopy, attenuated profile, the 2,000-plus-m.p.h., 225-ton plane was originally intended to be an intercontinental bomber but was later rejected for that role. Instead, only two were built, and they have served as an invaluable flying test bed for the myriad technical problems involved in developing a supersonic transport. The second and better-equipped of the two Valkyries also tested to the utmost the nerve and ingenuity of its pilots on a recent routine flight...
...Sail was forged in France in 35 pieces. Its 27-ton bulk took a ton and a half of nuts and bolts to hold it together and a four-ton concrete foundation. At present, it is the largest Calder in the Western Hemisphere. But not for long. The silver-haired tinker is already at work on a 65-ft.-high by 94-ft-wide stabile in unpainted stainless steel, to be set on an island in the St. Lawrence in time for the 1967 Montreal World's Fair. Its name...
...deep oscillatfhg copper-lined mold. As the mold bottom is withdrawn, an unbroken billet of barely crusted steel creeps down through cooling water sprays and over rollers to burners, which slice it, still red-hot, into handy lengths. The technique has cut production costs by more than $10 a ton for companies such as Roblin Steel of Dunkirk, N.Y., which helped pioneer the process in the U.S. Continuous casting mills are so much cheaper to build than old-fashioned facilities that tiny (80,000 tons a year) Roblin earned a 47% return on its net worth last year. Though continuous...
When the 85,350-ton flattop was christened in 1960, skeptics questioned whether the Enterprise's atomic propulsion could justify the added cost ($150 million). Last week, after 4½ months of combat duty off Viet Nam, the Big E-along with the only other nuclear vessel in the war, the destroyer Bainbridge-won straight A's from the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. Both ships' performances had amply demonstrated the tactical advantages envisioned by their planners: high speed and the priceless asset of being able to cruise as long as four years without refueling. Because...
...Hecla Inc., a 95-year-old Michigan copper company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. With investors excited by the possibilities of war in Viet Nam and shortages of war-essential copper at home, Calumet & Hecla two weeks ago touched off a run by announcing a 35 million-ton copper ore find in upper Michigan. Remembering quick profits generated by Texas Gulf Sulphur's Ontario copper strike two years ago, stock buyers put in so many orders for Calumet & Hecla that trading was suspended for six days, a record lapse on the Big Board. When trading resumed...