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...more interested in a potential world market of 2 billion customers than in a domestic market of 180 million." ∙MACHINE TOOLS. Manufacturers who produce only standard tools are pinched by foreign imports, and dread increased competition. Makers of special equipment, such as Warner & Swasey Co. (automated turret lathes), are not only unhurt but doing a big export business. "Now that European wage rates are going up and they're running out of skilled workers, our high-production machines are becoming important to them," says Warner & Swasey Executive Vice President James C. Hodge...
...privilege of being part of his personal tank crew as driver during World War II. If or whenever (I pray never) the Russians attack the general's sector in Germany, you can bet he will be in on the counterattack but from the turret of his tank, which I presume he has named "Thunderbolt," with clouds painted on the sides and streaks of lightning in the clouds. Those of us who served with and under him knew long ago that he would be recognized in the very near future as one of the greatest on tank warfare...
...under arrest. "Tell the colonel that he knows only an officer of my own rank can arrest me," said Lott, and went back to sleep. Back came a field marshal (Brazil has 36) to toss Lott into a damp, stone walled dungeon beneath the Fortress of Laje, a turret-topped rock jutting above the waters of Rio Bay. On Denys' orders, more than 100 army officers, loyal to Lott and insisting that the constitution be respected, were rounded up at Tommy-gun point in Rio. To uneasy reporters standing before his white cottage in Brasilia Denys cried...
...third supersonic bomber, the medium-range Blinder. First seen in 1957 in prototype, the production model at last week's flypast featured a new tail turret, radar and radar-jamming equipment...
...sadly catches the only thing that seems to swim in the average gagman's Pacific: a brassiere. Whenever he has nothing worse to do, Pat sings a song. The music will not seriously disturb anybody except musicians, but the words ("She's a new destroyer type Every turret round and ripe") are really going to raise Ned in the 4,400 Pat Boone fan clubs. Anyway, after 98 minutes on a cliche-cluttered Deck, even the most loyal Boone companion may say amen to this unwittingly witty bit of dialogue...