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Winthrop's four winners in the House wrestling semifinals yesterday will be the largest House contingent in the tournament's finals tonight. Leverett, with three finalists, ranks second in number of entries. Both freshman and House finals in all weight divisions will be held in the I.A.B., starting...
...unlimited weight division, William Gill of Winthrop will face Dave Daniels of Leverett, who received a victory by default in yesterday's match. The 177 lb. contenders are Ken Pruett of Dunster and Charles Harding of Lowell. Dunster's Bill Miller, who won a close 3-2 decision yesterday, will meet Joe Goodman of Winthrop, who also took his hard-fought match on points, in the 167-lb. division...
...transistor was developed only eight years ago by three scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories. It amplifies electrical impulses just like the vacuum tube, but is free of the vacuum tube's limitations-fragility, bulkiness, high power consumption, short life. The transistor needs no warmup time, saves space, weight, heat and power, lasts 150 times as long, uses as little as one-thousandth the electric current...
...aids cost ten times as much as vacuum tubes doing the same job, but the mighty mites do not require cooling, as do the tubes. This saves some $50,000, the cost of addkional power plant and airplane structure to carry the cooling apparatus, as well as cutting the weight of the plane...
Many planemakers think that the board's methods for determining a fair profit are vague, sometimes unfair. While most businessmen gauge profits in relation to sales, the board puts heavy weight on a company's net worth, along with such other factors as character of the business, extent of assumed risk and subcontracts, and inventive contribution. Even the Hebert committee recognizes that the renegotiation law is too vague...