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February 3,1S
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Kirk Baird takes advantage of the unsea- Baird, an accounting senior from Sher-
sonably warm weather during the man, was on what he called a “short”
weekend and gets some running in. nine-mile run.
Newport ship sales up
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. —
For the second year in a row,
Newport News Shipbuilding Co.
said il had more than Si billion
in sales.
The yard’s 1982 sales
reached Si.3 billion, up 19 per
cent f rom 1981 sales of S 1.1 bil
lion, shipyard officials said.
Operating income increased
35 percent to $1 1 1 million from
$82 million in $981, the fourth
year of higher operating in
come.
Including the December
Navy contract of $3.1 billion for
two Nimitz-class nuclear-
powered aircraft carriers, the
shipyard had a year-end backlog
of $8.5 billion.
The Navy contract is the
largest the service ever had
awarded.
“We are pleased with our
1982 financial performance,”
said Edward Campbell, com
pany president and chief execu
tive officer. “Much of the credit
goes to our employees, salaries
and hourly paid, who have re
sponded to the challenge of
working smarter and increasing
productivity.”
The shipyard delivered three
Navy ships and launched two
submarines to the service in
1982, officials said. The Nimitz-
class carrier Carl Vinson and the
Los Angeles-class nuclear-
powered submarines Atlanta
and Houston joined the fleet
from the Newport News yard.
The Los Angeles-class sub
marines Buffalo and Salt Lake
City were launched, and the
yard worked on the Nimitz-class
: carrier Theodore Roosevelt and
nine nuclear-powered sub
marines. •
day that net income for 1982
and for the year’s fourth quarter
were up.
Tenneco chairman and chief
executive officer James Ketelsen
said 1982 income from con
tinuing operations was $840 mil
lion, up 5 percent from $798
million in 1981.
Ketelsen called the increase “a
commendable achievement in a
tough year.”
Tenneco sales and operating
revenues in 1982 were $15 bil
lion, about the same as in 1981.
In the fourth quarter of 1982.
income from continuing opera
tions was $278 million, up 9 per
cent from the 1981 figure of
$254 million.
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NASA to try new probes
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WASHINGTON — Faced
with a tight budget for the fore
seeable future, the space agency
is designing an economy class of
solar system probes that will be
able to go to a variety of places
and do one job at a time.
The new spacecraft, planned
to fly in the 1990’s, will be called
Mariner Mark II, after the high
ly successful Mariner series that
explored Mars, Venus and Mer
cury in the 1960’s and early
1970’s.
The plan is to build these new
interplanetary cruisers with ex
isting technology and use any
advances that come along to re
duce costs rather than expand
capabilities as has been the prac
tice for past spacecraft going to
the planets.
Marcia Neugebauer, acting
manager of the development
project at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.,
said the goal is keep mission
costs between $150 million and
$300 million in 1982 dollars.
This compares with costs rang
ing up to $2 billion in today’s
dollars for the four-spacecraft
Viking 1 and 2 missions in 1975.
In previous National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion planetary missions, the
emphasis was always on im
proved performance with each
mission returning greater
amounts of more sophisticated
information than its predeces
sors.
“Today, because of severe
economic restraints, the outlook
is different,” Ms. Neugebauer
said in the Feb. 4 issue of Science
magazine.
The missions being consi
dered for the economy space
probe range include Mars and
Saturn orbiting flights, encoun
ters with comets and asteroids,
flights to send probes into the
atmospheres of Saturn’s moon
Titan and the planets Uranus
and Neptune, and even an
attempt to return cometary sam
ples to Earth orbit.
The space shuttle will be used
to launch the Mariner Mart!!
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the probe will give it the<
push needed to go from f
orbit to its far-off target.
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bled in modules around;
tral nerve center modules
will he easy to rig the basici
sign for a variety of differ
jobs.
Many of the missions i
consideration require
duration flights, lasting up
years so reliability will beiniBi
tant in spacecraft design.
Neugebauer said the prti
would have to l>e able tocarej
itself for many days at
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Willie gets tribute
for benefit concert
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DENVER — Willie Nelson got
a big thank you Tuesday from
Pueblo area lawmakers who said
they could easily understand
why the country and Western
singer with a “straggly beard”
and “well-worn jeans” was so
well-received by people across
the nation.
The lawmakers introduced a
tribute in the Colorado Legisla
ture to praise Nelson for the be
nefit concert he performed at
McNichols Arena in Denver
Monday night. It drew 16,000
fans and netted the Colorado
State Fair in Pueblo an estimated
$55,000 to $60,000.
Nelson, a Texan who owns a
home near Evergreen, Colo.,
f ave up his standard fee of
50,000 in order to perform the
benefit after he learned of
financial problems the State Fair
was suffering.
A tribute honoring Nelson
was introduced by Sens. John
Beno and Harvey Phelps and
Reps. Bob Leon Kirscht, Stan
Johnson, Leo Lucero and Larrv
Trujillo Sr., all of Pueblo.
“We wanted to thank him and
felt this was a good way to do it,”
Beno explained.
The tribute begins by describ
ing Willie Nelson as “what can be
said that hasn’t already been said
— musical impresario, lyricist,
musician, actor, writer, mega
award winner — a legend in his
own time.”
The tribute states that no
other entertainer in recent his
tory has probably exerted more
influence in the field of country-
pop music.
“From his straggly beard to
his well-worn jeans (not forget
ting his famous headband and
diamond earing), he has been
emulated, imitated, adored and
idolized by every strata of society
and every age group,” the tri
bute claims.
“Recognizing the quality of
life within the state of Colorado,
Willie Nelson is a bona fide land-
owner and citizen of our state.
To display his interest and con
cern for the montetary shortfall
of our State Fair, Willie Nelson
has donated his time to appear
in concert to benefit the Fair.”
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