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(for Ducellier-Bendix-Air Equipement), which last year had sales of $100 mil lion in mechanical items ranging from disk brakes for Fiat cars to hydraulic systems for the Concorde SST. Lacoste himself still oversees such other en terprises as his interests in a shipbuilding firm constructing 200,000-ton supertankers and in Le Nickel, the French corporation dominated by the Rothschilds that is the world's third largest nickel producer. Yet he still thinks about tennis, has developed a racket with a steel shaft frame that delivers more spring with the ping than the old wood en racket. The new racket has already court-tested by tournament play ers, will soon be produced with that crocodile emblem.