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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain Does Not Join. Complacent British industry drastically needs to cut costs, improve design, and sell as aggressively as its European competitors. Most of all, Britain needs a bigger, more dynamic market than the Commonwealth, in which fewer than 90 million citizens have any real purchasing power. Even Australia, Britain's best Commonwealth customer, has a population only slightly larger than Paris and Rome combined. Despite high tariffs on British imports, Europeans already have a healthy appetite for marmalade and Jaguars, Wedgwood china and Scotch whisky (which chic Frenchmen fancy in le long drink}. British sweaters...
...with a little corybantic in which gangster cuties are sent slithering across tables, sofas and floors as casually as spilled drinks. Johnny finds a nude Continental bunny (Margit Saad) in his own bed, and after that night she sticks as close to him as a birthmark. He has a bigger caper in mind, lifting ?40,000 from a race track. To the syncopated beat of the score, the job goes off with tingling finesse. In a bleak, snow-bitten field, Johnny digs a hole and buries his loot; two reels later, when the crime syndicate crushes him, it proves...
...years, his 220-lb. frame scaled down to 190-and his lips still sealed. A protege of ex-New York City Mayor William O'Dwyer. Moran was nailed in 1951 as the ''guiding genius" in a $500,000-a-year shakedown racket of oil burner contractors. Bigger fish in the city administration were feeding on the take, but Moran, offered a break if he named names, scornfully replied: "I came into this world a man-and I'm going...
...business as they did last week. S. C. Johnson and Son (wax products) announced that it had spent about $750,000 to buy one recent painting each by a representative selection of the nation's top artists. It was the largest single industrial investment in art to date, bigger even than the collection at New York's Chase Manhattan Bank. More important than the size of the investment was the quality it had bought. When Director James Rorimer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art saw transparencies of the paintings, he said they formed the finest collection of current...
...more important, the discounters are making the pie bigger. Last year's dis count store sales of $4 billion are expected to grow this year to more than $5 billion-and conventional retailers are also ringing up increased sales...