Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firings and Akron's Beacon Journal neglected to report the biggest potential story in town. The company secrecy was deliberate policy, and so was the uncertainty created among those who stayed. "I hope some of them will look into their performance and realize they could do better," says J. Wade Miller, vice president for personnel and organization. But there could be less favorable results for Goodrich, and not only in the loss of local good will in a community that backed the company in its struggle with Northwest. One group of white-collar workers, seeking job security, has asked...
Gasoline ads have generally ignored air pollution, concentrating on better mileage and higher performance for engines. Last week Standard Oil of California began to use pollution control as a promotional tool. It will market a variety of its Chevron gasoline that, it says, will help produce cleaner air. The gas contains an additive called F-310 that, according to claims, holds down the engine deposits that cause deterioration of emission-control devices and removes accumulated deposits. The additive will also, of course, "reduce fuel consumption, improve performance and cut maintenance." To be introduced in California and Hawaii next month...
...fact that he is eleven years younger than his chief rival, Executive Vice President Clarence Baumhefner. The bank has been moving up young executives fast, a trend that Clausen has helped to further. Though he usually lunches with customers, he saves a couple of lunches a month to become better acquainted with younger managers. "The managers of tomorrow will be far younger than the managers of today," he says. "This is not a matter of intellect but of exposure to worldwide activities. Our people mature a lot more quickly than they did before the age of mass television communication...
...sold in pastel packaging from cosmetics counters instead of drug shelves. It was introduced nationally in August, and sales in the first two months climbed to $250,000-a total that would please any marketer of a new drug or cosmetic. It has had little trouble moving into better-known stores, including San Francisco's I. Magnin, Washington's Woodward & Lothrop and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus. Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier declined to advertise the product publicly but included 75,000 brochures for the item in the monthly statements that it mails to customers...
They deserve better, even from 20th century man, says Critic and Biographer Theodora Ward. Modest, scholarly, at times profoundly thoughtful, her new look traces the story of angel visitations through theology, philosophy and art from angelic beginnings in Jewish and Christian scriptures up to the present. Miss Ward's conclusion: angels are in for a renaissance...