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Fifteen years ago, AMF was a with only a handful of products (cigarette baking and stitching machines) and annual sales of about $12,000,000. Today with 42 plants and 19 research facilities scattered across 17 countries, AMF turns out products ranging from remote-controlled toy airplanes to ICBM launching systems. Thanks to AMF's determined pursuit of diversification and growth products, its 1960 sales were $361 million, its earnings $24 million. And in the glum opening months of 1961, the company's sales and earnings hit new first-quarter highs
...Richard F. Post, of the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, reported that a "magnetic mirror" machine, playfully called Toy Top III, may soon make possible a controlled (nonexplosive) thermonuclear reaction. In the past, plasma formed by magnetic squeezing and heating of heavy hydrogen was too unstable to reach and maintain the high temperature necessary for a thermonuclear reaction. By using only two of Toy Top's three stages, said Post, plasma was confined in a "magnetic bottle" for one-thousandth of a second at a temperature of 40 million degrees centigrade. Post hopes that by using...
...What Shall We Do?" One day in 1914, Jeanneret drew a skeletal plan for a two-story, prefabricated house of reinforced concrete that was so simple it might have been the design for a child's toy. It consisted of six columns, three horizontal concrete slabs, a cantilevered staircase-and that was all. But the simple plan for the Domino house contained a principle that was to be basic to all of his planning thereafter. The six-column skeleton relieved the facades and the interior walls of support functions: they could thus be moved and molded at will, giving...
...will bring Textron Electronics Inc. into Lionel Corp. in exchange for about $30 million worth of Lionel stock. Textron Electronics, 76%-owned subsidiary of Textron Inc., lost $1,000,000 last year on sales of $25 million. Lionel earned $1,100,000 on $31 million sales of electronic products, toy trains and stainless-steel tanks...
...bride of 16, Catherine the Great was ignorant of the facts of life, thought the only difference between men and women was that men, for some odd reason, had to shave. Her Romanov husband was impotent, mad and sadistic, and his favorite pastime was to play with his toy soldiers or flog a dachshund suspended by a rope from the ceiling. "In later life," writes Nicolson, in a sly reference to her 30-odd lovers, "she did much to repair this gap in her experience." In later life she was also a great lip servant of liberty ("Liberty...