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...Half the Ark. Lord Sherfield has a reputation for smoothing out arguments, whether between nations, companies, or factions within companies. That talent is exactly what Hill, Samuel seems to need. Despite its size and profitability, the company has been split by internal dissension. The trouble began almost as soon as Hill, Samuel was formed 16 months ago by the merger of two distinguished but disparate banking firms: blueblood M. Samuel & Co., and new-blood Philip Hill, Higginson, Erlangers...
...bloody good row is." For a time in the row at Hill, Samuel, it even seemed possible that the hard-driving Keith might lose command. With Sherfield's appointment, Keith keeps his chief-executive title but loses some range. "He'll look after the outside of the ark," said Keith, "and I'll look after the inside." Bearsted, having found a neutral and popular successor, keeps a seat on the board...
...Tinguely, a maker of mad machines; Niki de Saint-Phalle, his American-born friend, famed for her outsized Nana dolls; and Sweden's Per Olof Ultvedt. The three started out full of enthusiasm, which never slackened for a second. Says Tinguely": "It's a Noah's ark, Gulliver's Travels, the tower of Babel. It's like being in an airplane, a factory, a church. Everything in it has significance...
...Arkansas Children's Colony for the retarded, near Conway, Ark., the inmates were housed 16 to a cottage and could be easily isolated. With the parents' consent, the researchers injected the vaccine into eight girls in one cottage, left the other eight unvaccinated for comparison. The first eight developed antibody but no fever or rash; the other eight were unaffected -in other words, the vaccinated children did not spread an infectious virus. Later tests in Arkansas have raised the vaccinated total to 34, with similar results, and the vaccine, although admittedly still experimental, is now being distributed...
...Birthday House and a plug from Barbra Streisand (who owns two) on her recent CBS special. Today gerbils are in demand from New York to Alaska. In La Grange, Ill., the Parkway Pet Store sold 16 after putting a sign in the window. In Atlanta, the Ark Pet Shop has already sold 125, has more orders than it can handle. Creative Playthings sells some 50 gerbils a week at $15 a pair, through its Manhattan retail outlet, Princeton, N.J., headquarters and well-known catalogue...