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Free from Competition. The merger, the immensity of which will have billowing effects on every financial empire in Italy, will enable Faina to cut costs. It will also bolster power-shorn Edison; under President Giorgio Valerio, 61, Edison has used its expropriation cash to move into electronics and heavy machinery, but most strongly into chemicals, where it has become Montecatini's principal rival. The merged company would no longer have to worry about that kind of competition, nor, because of Italy's easy antitrust laws, about facing monopoly charges...
...PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT was flawlessly equipped to produce "gory, grisly, money-making pictures" showing the plaintiff at every stage of his ordeal-all to bolster the Colonel's final, anguished argument to the jury: "This poor, helpless man has waited much too long for his money...
...bolster the company's position in the cigarette-lighter market, Singer brought out a new butane lighter as a companion to Scripto's popular see-through Vu-Lighter. He is considering dozens of other new products, among them a novel wide-view camera...
Missed Mousetrap. At Plei Me, a victory was badly needed to bolster sagging Viet Cong spirits, to "blood" two untested North Vietnamese regiments totaling 6,000 men, and reassure Hanoi that this is not the kind of war that effete Americans are prepared to fight. The Reds got blooded, all right, but not as they intended. When their mousetrap at Plei Me failed to snap shut, they turned to another battle-tested stratagem: suicidal airbase raids. They brought off a minor tactical gain-18 U.S. helicopters and two Navy Skyhawks destroyed, 22 other choppers and five Skyhawks damaged at Danang...
...owner-operator of Radio Station WBOX in Bogalusa, La., Ralph Blumberg felt it was his civic duty to help explain the meaning of the new civil rights law to his community. The local Ku Klux Klan disagreed. And to bolster its argument, its members threw bricks through Blumberg's car windows, spread tacks in his driveway, fired six shots into his transmitter, forced the station's transfer from rented quarters to a trailer. So convincingly did Klansmen threaten the lives of his wife and children that Blumberg moved them to St. Louis...