Word: beams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late 50s, to ward profitable acquisitions as a hedge against poor cigarette sales prospects. Last May, American took over Sun shine Biscuits, Inc., the nation's second largest biscuit maker, in a $113 million stock swap. Last month it bought 96% control of Chicago's James B. Beam Distilling Co. for some $110 million. Two weeks ago, it agreed to buy 52.66% control of Buckingham Corp., which distributes Cutty Sark Scotch in this country, from Schenley for some $50 million. Last week Walker announced plans to buy prosperous Royal Crown Cola Co. in American's biggest deal...
...Tigers will, most likely, paste Harvard like they paste everyone else. But there is a thin beam of hope. Not only has Princeton lost a game (to second-ranked Louisville, 72-63), but the Tigers had to struggle to tip Yale last Saturday...
...boys involved, write and edit a magazine of strenuous anti-U.S. protest but no visible proceeds called Fallout. The boys are intelligent fools and natural allies. Editor Perkins has the wiry agony of a tortured coat hanger. Benjamin, the writing half of the team, casts the glowless beam of an abandoned lighthouse...
What the U.S. Public Health Service recommends, and the A.D.A. approves, is a machine that delivers an X-ray beam 2¾ in. in diameter. Extra-heavy aluminum filters weed out useless rays, and lead shielding keeps all radiation within bounds. The patient gets only a small fraction of the radiation that was sprayed out of pre-1958 machines...
...Dallegret's La Machine is a far heftier entree. A Frenchman, now designing for Montreal's Expo 67, Dallegret has designed a device that looks like a giant metal steeplechase hurdle, weighs half a ton, and is priced at $27,000. It consists of two slender beams of anodized aluminum, 30 ft. long by 2 ft. high, braced between uprights. A cool piece of pure structure, the object has all the contemplative imagery of an I beam, but it has an inner electronic life. The narrow six-inch gap between the aluminum beams is brightly lit by hidden...