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...m.p.h., four-engined Mercator (curiously designed, with two turbojets and two piston engines) was a sitting duck. The 670-m.p.h. Red jets swooped down in six passes altogether, scored 15 to 20 damaging hits, knocked out both starboard engines, and left the rudder usable only by its trim tabs. While Plane Commander Mayer kept a lookout, Lieut. Commander Vincent Joseph Anania, 39, the copilot at the controls, put the plane into a steep, top-speed dive and leveled out just 50 ft. above the sea. The MIGs broke off. Mayer ordered all movable equipment dumped overboard and, alternating...
...anywhere in the U.S. (duplicated only in Detroit). In exchange, the paper asked the union to relinquish its uneconomic control over "base," the metal blocks on which engravings are laid. As it has been, a composing-room hand must take base blocks back to the stereotype department to be trimmed, even though he could easily trim them himself...
...industry's labor contracts expire. It is based largely on new applications. The uses of aluminum by the housing industry are expected to increase this year by more than 50% over 1958. The 1959 car uses about 52 Ibs. of aluminum for brakes, pistons, automatic transmission parts and trim (v. 47 Ibs. last year). By 1962, predicts D. A. Rhoades, general manager of Kaiser Aluminum, the auto industry's use of aluminum will be up 300%, to 500.000 tons a year for engines, wheels, bumpers and radiators...
...Last week Yvette Ward got the chance to use her woman's talent for refurbishing on an even grander scale. A week after the death of her husband, B. & B.'s President Charles A. Ward, she moved into his place as president. Hardly had she slipped her trim, horsewoman's figure (124 Ibs.) behind her husband's curved desk than she let everyone know that she meant to be no figurehead, but a hard-headed boss...
Just as unlikely is the Dream's creator: a trim, urbane Englishman named Alex Reeve, 58, who turned up at Howard Payne more than two years ago as speech professor, after 14 years as a director at the Royal Theater and Opera House in Northampton, England. When Reeve descended on Brownwood, he was appalled to find that Shakespeare had not been presented there professionally for 40 years and not even by amateurs for 20 years. He promptly put the Bard and his students in the same corral. Instead of "a wood near Athens," Reeve's Dream...