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...Baker Street Irregulars Hong Kong Sir: Okay, I can see leaving Gertrude Stein (straight) and Alice B. Toklas (soul) off your list, but Dear Abby (straight) and Ann Landers (soul) - unforgivable. BETSY TREMONT Teheran Sir: Please include Adlai Stevenson, soul uncle to all. SP4 A. R. WAYMAN, U.S.A. Avon Park, Fla. Sir: Aero engineers stole the moon out of Junes Medico pioneers took the heart out of tunes About all that's left in the bowl luv, is soul. ESTHER ANN GOLDBERG Lyndhurst, Ohio That Corson Book Sir: In its criticism of Lieut. Colonel Corson's book...
Size is not everything; FORTUNE also measures profitability. On the basis of earnings as a percentage of invested capital, 180th largest industrial firm Avon Products was the best performer with 37.3%. On the basis of earnings as a percentage of total sales, Amerada Petroleum, the 337th company on the list, ranked highest with 26.7%. By either measure, Polaroid and such drug firms as G. D. Searle, Smith Kline & French Laboratories and Merck were outstanding performers...
...taking a stand vis-a-vis the administration. They have long been reluctant to let themselves be quoted in the Crimson, knowing that they would get a phone call from Fay House the next day. "It's a matter of bread and butter," Carl J. Estabrook, senior resident from Avon House, explains. "Nobody has ever been fired for expressing dissent from administration policies, but many feel very uneasy...
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...historic seafarers-and unabashed supporters of the Israelis-the British were most impatient to put the plan into operation, even without multilateral backing. One high official, resorting to undiplomatic language, urged "ramming a ship up Nasser's channel." In the upper house of Parliament, Lord Avon-the former Anthony Eden, who resigned as Britain's Foreign Minister in protest against Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement and in 1956 joined France and Israel in the Suez invasion-even raised the specter of Munich. "I do not feel myself back ten years ago-I feel myself very much...