Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pink jungle of the toiletries business, Leonard H. Lavin, 43, president of Chicago's Alberto-Culver Co., aims for no less than "the elimination of all competition." While such a goal seems unlikely to all but Lavin, his stalking tactics in only eight years have changed Alberto-Culver from a one-product company (Alberto VO5 hair conditioner) to a rising threat in the industry, with sales last year of $57 million from 14 national brands...
...past month Alberto-Culver has brought out three new products: a skin lotion, a shampoo concentrate and an aerosol antiseptic spray that hardens to form a "bandage." This week Alberto-Culver begins test-marketing its New Dawn hair-coloring shampoo for fading women and Mighty White toothpaste, with toy cutouts on the box, for the children's market. Launching products is costly, but markups on toiletries are so high that Alberto-Culver last year earned 68.1% on invested capital. Profits were $2,300,000. So far this year, sales are up 48% and profits...
...from the Finance Ministry Francisco San Tiago Dantas, a brilliant, opportunistic politician whom the U.S. regarded as a man doing his honest best to carry out a needed austerity in Brazilian affairs. Having obliged the spenders by removing Dantas, Goulart quieted the savers by appointing in his place Carlos Alberto Alves Carvalho Pinto, 53, a hardheaded governor largely responsible for Brazil's most fabulous success story, booming São Paulo state. Goulart's choice as Foreign Minister was more controversial-his own chief presidential adviser, Evandro Lins e Silva, 51, a onetime criminal lawyer...
...find out what is going wrong with the Alliance for Progress, the OAS last November commissioned two distinguished Latin Americans-Juscelino Kubitschek, former President of Brazil, and Alberto Lleras Camargo, who had just finished his term as President of Colombia. Their separate reports last week made disheartening reading...
...world he is the liberal spokesman of ecumenical solidarity, leading the march along what he has called the long road to Christian unity. Alberto Lleras Camargo, statesman, former President of Colombia. . .LL.D...