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...portable flush toilets. It reaches its customers not only through its more than 800 retail stores but through 2,389 catalog-sales centers in localities that range in size from Los Angeles to Arkville, N.Y. (pop. 600), and Muleshoe, Texas (pop. 4,842). The largest Sears stores are in Troy, N.Y., and Roseville, Mich. The most profitable one is in Honolulu. The smaller catalog stores like the one in Lawrence, Kans., have only a counter stacked with the latest "wish book," other catalogs, a few appliances on display and a life-size cardboard cutout of Tiegs...
DIED. George Low, 58, boldly imaginative, Vienna-born engineer who goaded and guided the manned space program with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its predecessors from 1949 to 1976; of cancer; in Troy, N.Y. It was Low who suggested, in a 1960 memo to President John Kennedy, that a man could be put on the moon by decade's end. After the disastrous January 1967 fire that killed three astronauts, NASA Deputy Director Low took charge of redesigning and rebuilding the Apollo craft; with 90-hour, detail-obsessed work weeks, he met his deadline when Apollo...
Fortunately, better manuals may be on the way. Leading technical schools like Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, N.Y., and Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon have writing programs that teach students how to translate complex facts into clear directions. Enrollment in the classes is high, and instructors say that corporations have been snapping up their graduates...
These findings result from week-long visits to the all-girls Emma Willard secondary school in Troy. N.Y., where Gilligan conducts extensive interviews with the students three times a year...
This spring the netwomen played the Women of Troy in the seventh and final match of their spring tour. The Crimson fell, 9-0, but several of the matches went three sets and Usher believes that if all of the Harvard players peak and USC has an average performance, then the Crimson has a good chance. The coach does concede that if the Women of Troy play to their potential, then the netwomen will be outmatched from the start...