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Typical is Alan Biren, 23, of Roslyn, N.Y., a marketing major whose father is a salesman of printing equipment. He alternated study with selling groceries and toilet goods for Armour-Dial Inc., and he plans to join the company full time after graduation this June for about 20% more pay than a graduate of a traditional four-year college would receive. "The best thing I've learned," Biren says of his student career, "is how to communicate in selling." Scholars might grumble at such a judgment, but Biren's wife Sandra, a former Northeastern student herself, explains...
...around the U.S. had switched to the four-day week in one form or another. Their activities range from manufacturing to retailing to advertising and other services; most are relatively small, averaging about 185 employees each. So far no large companies have wholly adopted a four-day schedule, but Armour & Co. did so this month at its food-freezing plant in Fairmont, Minn., and hopes to make similar changes at other plants. Chrysler Corp. and the United Auto Workers have agreed to study the possibility, and even giant IBM is taking a new look at the work week, including...
Doubtful Combinations. In its list of proscribed drugs, the FDA fingered major companies from Abbott and Armour through Lilly and Merck to Winthrop and Wyeth. In most cases, the products of such companies were criticized not as hazardous but as ineffective in the forms offered. This is especially true of formulations in which one drug, usually an antibiotic, is combined with one of another class, such as an antihistamine, for use against colds...
...longer covers operating costs. Only a steep rise in the line's package express service made the bus operation profitable. The parent company, Greyhound Corp., has a great deal riding on the carrier's improvement. Though it is now in such varied fields as meat packing (Armour) and computer leasing, almost half of its earnings come from its transportation companies, of which the line is much the largest...
...RICHARD ARMOUR...