Word: vegas
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DIED. John Knudsen Northrop, 85, aviation pioneer and founder of Northrop Corp., who designed such celebrated planes as the original Lockheed Vega (in which Amelia Earhart made her historic solo transatlantic flight in 1932), the night-flying P-61 Black Widow fighter in World War II and the revolutionary boomerang-shaped Flying Wing; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. Northrop, who was also a co-founder of Lockheed Corp. in 1927 before starting his own firm in 1939, blamed manufacturing disputes with the Air Force, not problems of flight stability, for the fact that he never realized his dream of mass...
...research, warns that "we're a long way from a robot that can assemble a carburetor." Nor are robots a panacea for all the ills that industry is heir to. The most automated factory of its time was the Lordstown plant that GM designed to produce the unsuccessful Vega, evidence that productivity is not worth much if the product is hard to sell. As the robotmakers look ahead, though, they see a promised land. It is a land in which the factory computers guide the original design of a product and then translate all instructions for the robots that...
...rarely earned a callback during her first seven years in Hollywood, but Patti Davis, 28, is now just about the hottest name in town. The actress, who will be appearing on the Nov. 26 episode of TV's Vega$, has been receiving a hundred offers a day, says her manager Jay Bernstein. "She is as hot as any client I've ever had." And that from the man who handled the sizzling careers of Suzanne Somers and Farrah Fawcett. Davis, nee Reagan, assumed her mother Nancy's maiden name in 1974, she explains, "to have a better...
Government and religious pressure seem to be successful. According to Maritza Flores Vega, a spokesman for the National Ministry of Health, less than 10 per cent of Nicaraguan women use birth control. Why? "Partly because people want children born in 'Free Nicaragua,' and partly because many uneducated women associate contraception with Somoza's forcibly sterilizing thousands of peasant women...
...current generation of American small cars is vastly superior to the Ford Pinto and the Chevrolet Vega. The American public now views the car as they should have years and years ago: as an instrument to get you from one place to another...