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...hundred nations, the name Hoover suggests not J. Edgar or Herbert but a vacuum cleaner, and some people use it as a verb as well as a noun. Ohio's 55-year-old Hoover Co., the world's oldest and biggest vacuum-cleaner maker, nowadays is concerned with more than merely cleaning carpets. While vacuums will bring half of this year's expected worldwide sales of $200 million (up 21% from last year), Hoover plants from Australia to Wales have also begun to turn out electric can openers, hair dryers, heaters, washing machines, floor polishers. Driving this...
...Chamber of Commerce, savvy adviser and special envoy (to Latin America, Russia, the Middle East) for three U.S. Presidents, since 1945 Hollywood's unflagging champion as head of the Motion Picture Association; following a stroke; in Washington. A handsome, athletic extravert, Johnston began as a Spokane vacuum-cleaner salesman, became the Northwest's biggest independent appliance distributor. As movie watchdog, he led the campaign to blacklist movie Communists, coped with foreign competition by quietly liberalizing production codes to the point that even the once-rejected The Moon Is Blue was deemed nonblue enough to pass muster...
When the first Mariner capsule soft-lands on Mars, the multivator will be tossed out at the end of an electronic umbilical cord. After settling its tripod feet firmly on the Martian surface, a miniature vacuum cleaner will suck dust into a thin-lipped opening in the multivator's base. As the dust filters through the multivator's 15 tiny chambers, it will stick to their adhesive-coated walls. Then the chambers will be automatically sealed and filled with water from a small external tank...
...yearly (v. only 30,000 ten years ago), enabling Italy to edge out West Germany as Europe's leading producer. Washing-machine sales are rising so fast that they are catching up with refrigerators, and stores can hardly keep in stock any labor-saving appliance, from a vacuum cleaner to a floor polisher...
...seven of ten races and an all-time record $402,969; two weeks ago he clearly stamped himself the best in the East by coasting to a five-length victory in Florida's $136,600 Flamingo Stakes. The West's champion, Candy Spots, has an even cleaner record: he has won all his five races, and on the same day that Never Bend won the Flamingo, he skirted a four-horse pile-up to win California's $143,300 Santa Anita Derby by 1½ lengths...