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...Right to Kill. Summing up for the prosecution was Alabama's Assistant Attorney General Joseph Breck Gantt. "I don't want to talk about the Communist Party," he said, "or the Teamsters Union, or the N.A.A.C.P. or segregation or integration or whites or niggers or marches or demonstrations. I want to talk about a murder case that happened in Lowndes County." He argued that no man has the right to kill just because he is enraged at the sight of a white and a Negro sitting together in the same car. Such scenes, he said, are common...
Died. John Breck Sr., 87, founder and chairman of the biggest U.S. shampoo-maker (15% of the market), a onetime Massachusetts fireman who started mixing chemicals in the early 1900s when his own hair began to thin, built his concoctions into a $28 million annual business with the help of one of the U.S.'s most distinctive ad campaigns, featuring for the past 25 years portraits of silken-haired blondes, most of whom were his own granddaughters and great-granddaughters; of leukemia; in Springfield, Mass...
Profitable Intangibles. Some clannish companies eventually sell out or merge: Q-Tips, for example, recently merged into Chesebrough-Pond's, and Breck Shampoo into American Cyanamid. A much larger number of successful and independent businesses find ingenious ways to overcame the hurdles. Charles Cassius Gates Jr., president of Denver's Gates Rubber Co., has led his company abroad and diversified it so widely that it now has both egg factories and a mutual fund. To overcome the disadvantages of nepotism, Seattle's Simpson Timber has ruled that the only job open to the owners' family...
Glaser, who is currently dean of the University of Colorado Medical School, will oversee the uniting of the Boston Lying-In Hospital, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Free Hospital for Women, Massachusetts Eye and ear Infirmary, Peter Bent Brigham, and Robert Breck Brigham Hospitals...
...Paso team insists that the patient's skin must lie directly on the cropped wool. Even in hot weather, this helps to keep the patient cool by letting air circulate. The sheepskin can be washed repeatedly, provided it is well rinsed. "It is remarkable," say Drs. Breck and Gonzalez, "that the method has not been adopted widely throughout the country...