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After an eight-year court battle with the antitrust division, the American Optical Co. and Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., makers of eyeglasses and frames, and 34 other companies gave in last week. They agreed to stop practices which the Justice Department considered monopolistic and illegal. They also agreed to license...
At the moment, the male is in Denver, trying desperately to acquire a nest for his family (all except the double-breasted dow ager). For six months he has tried to find an abandoned nest of some other bird, while his female has stayed a thousand miles behind in the...
In the far north, army officers figure that for every degree the temperature drops below zero, a soldier's effectiveness goes down about 2%. Near 50 below, all his energy is used just to stay alive. But if the Western Hemisphere ever has to defend itself against an attack...
Two years ago, at 48, Walter Hoving got tired of working for other people. He quit his $135,000-a-year job at Lord & Taylor, formed his own Hoving Corp. to "acquire and operate" stores "with an annual volume of between $150 and $200 million." Many a merchandiser, who regarded...
The desire to learn is rather than the ability. The emphasis at Harvard and at almost all other American colleges is on results--i.e., marks. The student who gets passing marks is no one's concern but his own, regardless of what kind of an education he is getting. And...