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Those of you who read the story titled "That College Look" in the Education section of TIME's July 5 issue know that TIME's College Graduate Survey, which I told you about some months ago, has now been tabulated and will be released in book form next fall. Meanwhile, our Market Research department decided to find out some things-including what they thought of TIME-about this year's crop of graduating seniors in 56 well-known U.S. colleges and universities. Some of the results may be of interest...
...Canada's Saguenay River, long ago explored by Jacques Cartier, yields great riches...
...rubber industry, which a year ago cut tire prices 10% but later raised them, was getting ready to raise them again. Up went roller bearings, cable products, plastics, furs. Two-for-15? cigars (Bayuk) were boosted to 9? apiece. The Aluminum Co. of America last week granted a 10% wage increase, promptly raised the basic price of aluminum 1? a Ib. (to 15?), the first price increase in eleven years...
Outsider In. Six months ago, old (66) hawk-nosed Sosthenes Behn was jarred into relaxing his one-man control of the International Telephone & Telegraph. Insurgent stockholders, led by Financier Clendenin Ryan, had succeeded in electing seven (out of 23) directors (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week, Behn voluntarily relaxed some more control. He stepped out as president (remaining as chairman and chief executive officer), got his new board to bring in an outsider: A.T.&T.'s operations & engineering chief, Vice President William H. Harrison...
Slicks. The best of them look as well on a library table as Town & Country. Except for its Chevrolet ads, General Motors' slick Friends (1,400,000 a month) could pass as a regular picture magazine. Restyled three years ago by the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) as a luxury magazine, The Lamp, which goes to 255,000 readers, pays up to $2,500 for articles. Chrysler's Overseas Graphic is exported (in English and Spanish) to 20,500 foreigners...