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...sales come from flour, consumer foods, and such specialty products as high-protein soybean meal. The rest of its sales come from a strange hodgepodge of activities: chemicals and electronic components divisions which are the remains of a long-abandoned diversification effort that once even had the company producing two-man submarines. Rawlings plans to continue these offshoots but stresses that "our greatest opportunities for profits and growth lie in the convenience food business...
...Offutt Air Force Base. High SAC officers throw a switch that opens an electronic lock on the missile flight. They call the two control officers. The two, sitting 15 ft. apart, pick up separate telephones to receive, decode and authenticate the orders. Each must agree that it is a valid command. They go through a launch sequence in unison, break lead seals on their console buttons. The birds still will not fire until another two-man crew in another capsule sends a concurring signal. Finally, any of five control centers in each squadron can push a switch labeled "inhibit...
...almost like a bird. To take off, soar and land, it will straighten its wings for maximum lift; in flight it will tuck its wings into its body, enabling it to dive and thrust like a falcon. Flying at more than twice the speed of sound, the two-man plane will range up to 3,000 miles with a load of nuclear-tipped missiles. The variable-sweep wing idea came from Aero-dynamist John Stack five years ago. when he was working for the Government. Big design teams from Boeing and General Dynamics have built...
...brilliant critical study that makes rivals obsolete or research of such exhaustive thoroughness that it discourages competitors. Among them: Edgar Johnson, of New York's City College, who owns Charles Dickens; Ernest J. Simmons, who took over Tolstoy with a whopping biography in 1946, recently became a two-man proprietor when his massive study of Chekhov (TIME, Oct. 19) came out; Harvard's Douglas Bush, who has monopolized Milton since 1945 and may set the 20th century endurance record as titleholder, a triumph only slightly tarnished by the fact that Milton can hardly be described as a hotly...
Partisans of both sides of the argument have been stirred up once more by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration report on the two-man Gemini capsule, which will soon supersede the one-man Mercury. The Gemini, says the report, will return to many airplane practices; its crew will fly it as freely as possible. But though the Gemini will be 'flown" after a fashion, to control it effectively will call for highly scientific skills...