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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murmured, and Ike shot an 89. Next morning, who should turn up at Culzean Castle but the President's old golf-playing and bridge-playing buddies, William Robinson, chairman of the board of Coca-Cola, and W. Alton ("Pete") Jones, chairman of the executive committee of Cities Service Co. Ike's aides had called them from Paris, invited them to Scotland. "We'll be over," said they, and they were...
...Minister of State Raul Roa, and talked until 2:30 a.m. Bonsai had sore topics to fire away at, including 1) fair-compensation for the $300 million in U.S. sugar holdings now facing expropriation, 2) the 21% rate slash forced on the $272 million U.S.-controlled-Cuban Electric Co., and 3) the 87 U.S. citizens arrested over the past eight months...
...recognition of Yamasaki's growing stature among U.S. architects, the Detroit Institute of Arts will open next week a full-scale show of his past works and future projects, timed to coincide with the dedication of Yamasaki's newest building -the Detroit headquarters of Reynolds Metals Co. Though its grille of gold anodized aluminum owes an unabashed debt to Architect Ed Stone, the Reynolds building, on a 4½-acre plot in a suburb just north of Detroit, epitomizes Yamasaki's ideals of serenity and delight. Aluminum-clad columns lift it above a pond filled with water...
Fish Finder. A small (6 in. in diameter), portable fathometer depth sounder for amateur fishermen, which flashes a red signal when a small boat passes over a fish, was put on sale by Raytheon Co. The device, small enough for use on a canoe or raft, sends out ultrasonic signals that fish cannot hear, is powered by a self-contained battery...
Died. Charles R. Blyth, 76, founder-chairman of the San Francisco investment banking house of Blyth & Co., who started his firm in 1914 with a loan on his car, hired on jobless financial wizards during the Depression, came to operate offices in 24 cities with assets of better than $35 million; in Hillsborough, Calif...