Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Auto-company executives, like election candidates, have never been known to poor-mouth their prospects. So when automen early this year talked down economic uncertainties and talked up a robust 9,000,000-car sales year, it seemed like just more chrome from Detroit's brass. Not any more, though. The way auto sales are going, the industry may find itself for once guilty of understatement...
...performance. Another record, produced by George Harrison, offers Liverpool Rock Singer Jackie Lomax, 24, in a driving, bluesy delivery of a Harrison song, Sour Milk Sea. Then there is the 113-year-old Black Dyke Mills Band from the Yorkshire town of Queensbury. Producer McCartney decided that their traditional brass sound would be just right for Thingumybob, a theme that he and Lennon wrote for a weekly London TV show...
Four-Way Plug-In. The Beatles, as Paul has been warning recently, "are not the four moptops any more." They are four iconoclastic, brass-hard, post-Christian, pragmatic realists. Some of this does break through Davies' skein of anecdotes. So does the curious relation among the Beatles. Film Director Richard Lester once described it as "the four-way multiple plug-in personality," in which each one is only a phase of a larger unit that has far more reality for them than any other human relationship they know...
During the past two years, Scovill has been expanding through acquisitions of companies in housing and home building. It thereby hopes to escape overdependence on brass-mill earnings, which accounted for some 55% of company sales in the early 1960s. In 1967 Scovill bought NuTone Inc., maker of built-in home products. This year it added Caradco, the second largest window-frame producer in the U.S. For an even better balance, Scovill firmly intends to bring down the share of brass to 20% of total sales through future acquisitions...
...company had rev enues last year of about $15 million, and its profits were in "the seven-figure category." That was a vast improvement over past years, when Talent Associ ates suffered in no small part because of its voluble boss's knack for alien ating network brass. But Susskind has learned to confine his contrariness large ly to his still running TV talk show...