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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and Company Negotiator Malcolm Denise finally signed a new three-year labor contract. That done, Ford announced that it lost $73.9 million during 1967's third quarter, compared with a $65.8 million profit for the same period last year. It was the biggest earnings setback since Ford went public in 1956, and the strike was obviously to blame. But troubling though the deficit was, Ford should make up most of its losses with a surge of sales to customers who waited out the strike...
...chairman and technological consultant. Besides, RCA differs from many large companies in that it has no mandatory retirement age for top executives. Chairman of the Board David Sarnoff, father of the new chief executive, is still vigorously active at 76; he remains RCA's most powerful voice and biggest stockholder...
...which will benefit all of us." Though plagued by recent troubles, Korvette obviously has high hopes too. Built for $1,500,000 from the shell of the defunct Saks-34th Street, the new store-Korvette's 45th-is meant to be the nine-state chain's biggest revenue earner, with expectations of $35 million in annual sales. The store will stress conveniently arranged, gaily displayed merchandise while playing down the head-on price rivalry that is supposed to characterize discount operations...
...called discount stores are nonetheless multiplying fast; they now account for about $15 billion in annual sales. S. S. Kresge Co., which last year passed Korvette as the biggest discount chain, has 204 K Mart discount stores and plans to add 50 new ones in the next year. In the face of such breathless expansion, as well as the aggressive stances of established department stores, many a marginal discounter may be doomed. A discount furniture store in Atlanta, for example, went broke after Rich's, the city's largest department store, consistently matched its prices...
Fresh from a clutch win over Princeton and Yale in last week's Big Three Meet, Harvard will run against the seven other Ivy schools, Army, and defending champion Navy. Coach Bill McCurdy rates the Cadets and the Midshipmen as the biggest challenges to a Harvard win with Yale, Princeton, Brown, and Penn outside shots...