Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Releasing the Yo-Yos. Lofted from the U.S.A.F.'s Western Test Range at Lampoc, Calif, on July 4, the daddy longlegs in the sky is a masterpiece of technological ingenuity. It is guided from the Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Md. NASA scientists there had to perform a series of intricate maneuvers before they could call for the unreeling of the satellite's four main antennas. First they had to nudge the 417-Ib. satellite into a circular, near-polar orbit about 3,640 miles above the earth with precisely timed bursts of a small rocket called...
...doing?" he cries as the assorted forces of evil tangle in, around, up, down and through his baroque baronial halls. And in a delicious caricature of a caricature, Balík decks out his English and German villains in those capitalist top hats that Communist cartoonists place on all Western heads...
Charles G. Bluhdorn, chairman of merger-minded Gulf & Western, explains the rationale behind that current corporate rage-the conglomerate company-in disarmingly simple terms. "If you have all your eggs in one basket, you're stuck with those eggs," says Bluhdorn. "But if you've also got apples and bananas, that's something else." Following that formula, Bluhdorn, James Ling of Ling-Temco-Vought, Harold Geneen of ITT and several others have traced the tracks of such conglomerate pioneers as Litton and Textron across industry lines into movies and machinery, aircraft and auto parts, cigars, cybernetics...
...cotta Victorian version of a Spanish castle, stands right in its midst. "Just about every visitor to London goes to Harrods," boasts the store's 31-year-old chairman, Sir Hugh Fraser, who succeeded his father two years ago. "It ranks with Buckingham Palace and the Tower." Now Western Europe's largest department store, Harrods is the pride of the House of Fraser Ltd. (1967 sales: $243 million), the chain which bought the eight-store Harrods group for about $100 million...
...Significantly, neither computers nor autos are manufactured in the city. Not the least of the obstacles to economic expansion is a critical shortage of workers. West Berlin's labor problem became acute when the Ulbricht government put up the Wall in 1961, thus depriving the city's Western sector of its 60,000 East German workers. Native labor, meanwhile, is difficult to keep at home, since the average hourly wage ($1.25) runs some 10% below that in West Germany. A city without suburbs-and hence commuters -West Berlin is also plagued by a housing shortage that often forces...