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Brewery Classrooms. Even Rutgers is poorly supported. At the main campus in New Brunswick, its history department conducts classes in a converted century-old house and a more ancient prep-school building. A Rutgers branch in Newark operates in a converted brewery and a former razor-blade factory. Salaries are tied to state civil service scales, adequate for instructors but, at a maximum of $16,000, too low to keep top professors. Raided by the State University of New York and others, New Jersey last year made an exception and offered a few professors up to $24,000, but, insists...
Soon after Britain's tiny Wilkinson Sword Ltd. began selling stainless-steel razor blades in 1961, it captured 30% of the British blade market, dominated by Boston's slow-moving Gillette Co. It then moved into the U.S. and bravely challenged Gillette on its home ground. By last year Wilkinson had moved into 50 countries, run up a 1964 pretax profit of $9.8 million and made confident predictions of a 40% sales increase in 1965. It began to look as if tiny David were slaying the Gillette Goliath...
Gillette began to fight back in earnest in December 1963, when it entered the British stainless-blade market, launched a major new salvo last September with a massively advertised new blade coating named "Microchrome EB-7." Wilkinson, whose ads seem designed to sell swords as much as blades, still is holding on to its 52% share of the British stain less market, but it has had to lay out needed cash to double its advertising spending. "We made certain forecasts and geared our output to them," says Managing Director Roy Randolph. "Well, it has proved more difficult than we expected...
...probably the best foil contingent in the country. The Crimson has junior Tom Musliner, all-Ivy last year, and captain Rick Kolombatovich, who was out most of last year with an ankle injury. If they have a good day and if sophomore Chuck Lowell can temper his speed with blade control, Harvard has a chance, Marion said...
...where you can't make everybody happy." Says one reporter: "He's Mr. Snow in my book." There is an "icy piety" about him, complains another. Says a third, with grudging admiration: "He can shave the truth until it is as thin as a razor blade. Nevertheless, it is the truth...