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Vertical Take-Off. With the Lehman-raised cash, Thornton and Ash bought Litton, then a small microwave tube manufacturer, and began broadening its spectrum by picking up a handful of other small electronics firms. As its stock soared. Litton found it easy to swap shares for control of larger companies...
Pontiac. Following the 1962 trend toward pizazz. Pontiac has turned out a Grand Prix hardtop coupe replete with stick shift, bucket seats and dual exhaust pipes. To differentiate it from the standard Pontiacs. which have new prow-shaped grilles, the Grand Prix grille is split by a vertical wedge. Like...
Eventually, of course, familiarity breeds content-one night at bedtime the little darlings, like many well-trained Disney animals, exchange a nutter of ever-so-cute kisses that will probably make every little girl say ah and every little boy say ugh. Fortunately for the little boys, the cord is...
¶ A big transport plane with rotors on top for vertical take-off like a helicopter, two propeller engines for forward flight once aloft. The British are working on such a plane for the West (the Rotodyne), have not yet perfected it.
In the 34 years of the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee, girls have been the winners almost 2 to 1. Last week in Washington, the championship went to a boy: John Capehart, 12, a Tulsa neurosurgeon's son who competed against 49 girls and 23 other boys picked from...