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...women were middle-aged friends who had driven to the rustic Starved Rock Lodge on the same day they disappeared. They were respected matrons in the upper-middle-class Chicago suburb of Riverside. Frances ("Frankie") Murphy, 47, wife of a vice president and general counsel of the Borg-Warner Corp., had four children, and, like her two friends, was a dedicated community leader and an active member of Riverside's Presbyterian Church. Mildred Lindquist, 50, wife of a vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, had two children. Lillian Getting, 50, wife of an Illinois Bell...
...Borg-Warner President Robert Ingersoll trimmed his estimate for the company's 1960 sales by 5%, but it is still 5% more than 1959, when sales hit $650 million. Said Ingersoll: "The most encouraging sign at Borg-Warner, from the point of view of the economy as a whole, is that capital expenditures will be the largest in the company's history, $37 million, up from $20 million...
...rate of 1,200,000 homes. But Detroit's automakers have visions of a 7,000,000-car year in 1960, with 18%-20% of the market in the compacts. Steelmen forecast a total of 125 million tons of steel next year, up nearly 35 million tons. Borg-Warner's Norge Division President Judson Sayre expects big increases in the appliance industry-8% for clothes dryers, 10% for refrigerators. Moreover, plant and equipment expenditures will rise from $34 billion in 1959 to a rate of $40 billion in the fourth quarter of 1960. With all the booming good...
...musical performance itself, as everybody agreed, was first-rate. Guided by Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, Principals Lisa Delia Casa, Cesare Siepi, Mildred Miller and Regina Resnik sang with the security and style that comes from long experience. Of the two singers making their debut, Finnish Bass-Baritone Kim Borg (as the Count) was adequate, but Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soederstroem (as Susanna) was a silvery voiced delight. The sets by Designer Oliver (Rashomon, House of Flowers) Messel were superbly elegant: a boudoir whose rose-colored silk panels and drapes glowed with a kind of faded splendor, a formal garden suffused with...
...accept a Sonning Prize (the Danish equivalent of a Nobel award and worth about $14,250), plus some $35,625 in other windfall gifts that will be applied to his famed jungle hospital in Gabon, central Africa. That evening, at a state banquet in Copenhagen's Christian-borg Castle, Dr. Schweitzer met another Nobelman, Denmark's aging (74) Atomic Physicist Niels Bohr, for the first time. Seated together, the two talked seriously, reportedly found themselves in complete agreement that nuclear test explosions should be stopped...