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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chart used in the [Oct. 4] issue shows that Litton Industries acquired Elliott Automation in 1961. This is completely wrong. I am sure you are aware that Elliott Automation is a large and important company with worldwide interests. Elliott Automation has a subsidiary company, Elliott-Litton Ltd., which is jointly owned with Litton Industries. This was formed in 1961. There is no other connection between the two companies...
...auto salesroom and announce that what he saw in his future was a Ford, Buick or Chevrolet. Now, in order to choose from a bewildering selection of car names, he may need The World Almanac, a foreign-language guide, a vest-pocket bestiary, and perhaps a celestial-navigation chart. Already on the market are such prestigious monikers as Ford's Galaxie 500 XL (the XL means nothing at all), Chevrolet's Impala or Corvair Monza Spyder (apparently spelled with a y to avoid the insect image, despite Chevy disclaimers), Oldsmobile's F85 and Starfire (odes...
...world, frowns on jazz, vocal music of any kind, classics, instrumental solos, everything set in minor keys (too sad), and anything else that lasts more than three minutes. O'Neill, his ten musicologists and his 35 arrangers, all work for a "functional sound" that fits into their "stimulus chart." Whenever they notice something in their music that grasps their own attention, they say, "The skeleton's showing," and gravely...
...back to earth. But not until men began probing the upper atmosphere with instrumented rockets could the conditions that caused this sound bounce be fully understood. Early this month, scientists at the White Sands Missile Range used a phenomenon like that at Victoria's funeral to help them chart a region of the upper atmosphere...
...rise was not spectacular, but economists took pleasure in it nonetheless. During the year's first five months retail sales had hovered around the $20.3 billion-a-month mark, a remarkably steady performance but still not good enough for the chart watchers, who have come to depend so much on the consumer's performance. "They expect each week to be a new world," says the chief economist of a nationwide chain...