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...Andes, stretching the length of Latin America. On the 30-minute hop from La Paz to one remote mountain town, pilots of Bolivia's Lloyd Aéreo line regularly thread their way through clouded-in peaks with the copilot calling out seconds on his trusty wristwatch. And then, there are the airports. More than 80% of Latin America's 1,085 airports lack permanent night landing lights; some 75% have no control towers, radios or paved runways; and only five fields on the entire continent boast a complete instrument-landing system...
...leaves his home or office. What next? At their yellow brick headquarters, which sprawls like a Pentagon of science over the wooded hills of Murray Hill, N.J., Bell's crew-cut mathematicians, physicists and chemists-many of them not yet 30-are working on pocket phones, wristwatch phones, and laser beams that someday will replace wires and microwaves as carriers of the spoken word. A Basic Difference. Looking toward his own tomorrow, Fred Kappel knows that A.T.&T.'s inflexible retireby-65 rule will compel him to step down within three years. He also knows that though personnel...
...divisions that produce everything from eyeglasses and iron cookware to rocket engines and rolling mills, Textron added a 27th by buying for $7,000,000 a small Vermont toolmaking firm called Jones & Lamson. Management meetings are brief at Textron because the chairman dislikes rambling conversation, sets a wristwatch alarm to make sure that he does not ramble him self. Shattering the old axiom, Textron, under Banker Thompson, last year earned $18 million on sales of $587 million, is now New England's second biggest company after United Aircraft...
...Hello, late workers," reads the cheery newspaper ad. "Are you usually late for work, appointments and dates? Well, let Gimpex take care of this with a Russian alarm wristwatch." And if timing is no problem, how about Chinese or Czechoslovakian sewing machines, glassware, pots and pans, brushes, cut-rate food items? In British Guiana's capital of Georgetown, Gimpex, short for Guiana Import-Export Corp., offers them all. The company is the colony's biggest importer of Communist goods, and Marxist Premier Cheddi lagan's lifeline to the Red world...
...their work. "Some scientists have to be careful with explosives, or poisons. We have to be careful with radiation. It's not really very different," said one. Technicians at the accelerator need not wear dosage clips, but no job is without its peculiarities. At the C.E.A., nobody wears a wristwatch-the powerful magnets in the ring will quickly ruin a watch...