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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lilliputian Variant. Now, in the newest twist in tapes, a variant on the cartridge has come along that is even more convenient and Lilliputian than the original. Called a cassette, it encases a tape and two tiny reels within a plastic box scarcely bigger than a pack of cigarettes. It snaps into a player as handily as the cartridge does, but it must be removed and turned over at the midpoint of its playing time, which averages 40 minutes. Since it moves even more slowly than the cartridge, it sacrifices still more sound quality. But it boasts two big advantages...
...Robert A. Katz, secretary and counsel of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Inc. Besides advance payments of $200,000 apiece, royalties from the two companies could eventually amount to $5,000,000 a year. And because Strickman refuses to grant exclusive licenses, the foundation could still hope to reap far bigger returns from any-or all-of the leading U.S. cigarette companies. Even Columbia would not be left out in the cold. Though the university formally severed all ties with the filter, Strickman nonetheless designated its medical school as the foundation's chief beneficiary...
...baseball and football uniforms. At one meeting, anxious to rev up competition among his bank's various branches, he showed up at the wheel of a child's toy car. And to make the point that the bank's executives ought to aim at bigger and bigger targets, he once donned a shooting jacket and bounded into a conference room amid a volley of blank .30-cal. cartridges...
...effort to encourage the unprecedented wave of corporate mergers now sweeping the country, Harold Wilson's Labor government has acted on the belief that Britain can best compete in world markets with bigger, more efficient companies. Wilson's detractors are not so sure. And they have been particularly suspicious of the Industrial Reorganization Corporation, a quasi-governmental group that has produced more than its share of bickering in its role as Britain's official corporate marriage broker...
...many recent mergers. One of its notable public achievements was its help, including a $42 million loan, in arranging the marriage of Elliott-Automation and English Electric into a single $990 million-a-year computer-making company. The I.R.C. has also worked behind the scenes on even bigger deals, including General Electric Co. Ltd.'s acquisition of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. For that, however, it received criticism as well as praise, especially from A.E.I., which resisted G.E.C.'s takeover attempts until the end. Dear Independence. Grierson's successor in the post of managing director, Charles Villiers...