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...Petrofina, up 114.8%, and by Iowa Beef Packers, whose 114.6% gain was due largely to increased capacity. Amerada Petroleum, in 355th place, had the highest profit margin for the sixth consecutive year-30.2% of sales-thanks largely to its low overhead. When it came to return on invested capital, Avon led with 34.3%, followed closely by Gillette's 34.1%, General Dynamics 32.2%, Smith Kline & French's 30.9% . On the average, the 500 earned better than 6% on sales and 9% on invested capital, both slightly higher than...
SHAKESPEARE: SOUL OF AN AGE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A repeat of the highly acclaimed 1962 special in which Ralph Richardson narrates the story of Shakespeare's life, illustrated by visits to Stratford-on-Avon and other pertinent sites, while Michael Redgrave and other leading British actors read from the plays...
STRATFORD-ON-AVON--"More and more light," sagely noted Shakespeare, commenting on the new CRIMSON telephone book. "It tell a lie--why, spit in my face, call me horse," the poet continued. Encouraged by the Bard's response, the CRIMSON bravely offers a Free Subscription to the first person to spot all 208 errors in the book. The new expanded edition is on sale now in all House dining halls and at the CRIMSON Building, 14 Plympton St. $1, cash...
What with alarming figures from the National Opinion Poll and the confessions of Christine, top Tories were braced for bad news from last week's by-election to fill John Profumo's vacant seat at Stratford-upon-Avon, a true-blue Tory constituency. The news was bad all right, though hardly disastrous. Right-wing Conservative Angus Maude won with 15,846 votes, but the party's margin dropped from its 1959 peak of 14,129 to a mere...
...with the U.S.; and David ("Screaming Lord") Sutch, a 22-year-old plumber's helper turned rock-'n'-roll singer, who called for a better deal for Britain's teenagers, though by law they are not permitted to vote for him, and affrighted Stratford-upon-Avon by campaigning in top hat and tails. "What," he asked disdainfully, "has Hamlet done for you lately...