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...television sets, outbid Dutch interests by offering $74.8 million for ailing Pye of Cambridge, sixth-ranking TV-set producer, which lost $25 million last year. Austrian-born Sir Jules Thorn, 62, built Thorn up from a mite to a mammoth (fiscal 1966 sales: $238 million) by breaking a light-bulb monopoly in the '30s. Later, he expanded by absorbing such competitors as Marconi, British Philco, and Ultra Radio and Television. Through Pye, Thorn hopes to move into telecommunications, now dominated in Britain by the likes of Plessey and General Electric (which has no connection with the U.S. company...
...jingly music (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?), the movie was also a significant departure in its simply stated moral theme. In Snow White, Disney and his staff met the challenge of creating believable characters. Each of the seven dwarfs, from sober-sided Doc to dim-bulb Dopey, had a distinct personality. In Cinderella, a handful of Disney creations nearly stole the show: the bloodthirsty but fatuous cat Lucifer, and the nimble mice, Jaq and Gus-Gus. Millions of children the world over grew up convinced that Disney wrote as well as drew such tales...
...print called Shades, which was, in effect, an art-toy-graphic. He transferred bits of newspapers and magazines onto a lithography stone, then inked and printed the image on an acetate sheet, which he in turn laminated on Plexiglas. Finally, he illuminated the whole thing with a light bulb. The result: a movable electric 3-D graphic...
...helicopter homed in on the pilot's voiced directions from his pocket radio and scooped him to safety. No other American has been rescued so close to North Viet Nam's main population center. Four and a half hours after takeoff, Adams-fondly nicknamed "Bulb" because of his prematurely receding hairline-was back aboard the Oriskany. Squadron 162 greeted him with pistols raised in mock salute-and two ounces of Napoleon brandy. To Minneapolis, Adams wired: "Would you believe it? I did it again...
...were kidding before, But not any more. Get your-er-selves into space Or we'll take your place. Stafford and Cernan themselves wryly presented the launch crew with a yard-long red and white baton topped by a light bulb. It was a match, they explained, that the crew was to use to achieve a successful "burn...