Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitfalls on our pilgrimage, plenty of Sloughs of Despond and some Mr. Fainthearts," said Britain's Harold Macmillan in a speech last week in Scotland, but he was determined to press on to the summit. There were also many skeptics who doubted that any meeting with Khrushchev, Gromyko & Co. would ever lead to the House Beautiful, the Delectable Mountain and the Enchanted Ground...
...companies to agree to foot the college bills of deserving youngsters, started off by testing 56,000 students. This year N.M.S. tested 480,000 (32% of all U.S. high school seniors), has 87 sponsors ranging from Sears, Roebuck, which has financed 350 scholarships so far, to the Central Soya Co. Inc. with one. By the time the 1959 crop graduates from college, the companies will have given some $15 million to 3,000 National Merit scholars. And, beside the actual scholarship winners, 10,000 selected 1959 Merit finalists can count on aid from such other sources as colleges and foundations...
...General Motors $1.03 $ .65 Chrysler 1.75 1.74 (loss) Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) .78 .72 Westinghouse Electric Corp. .81 .73 Brunswick-Balke-Collender...
...breed of socially conscious U.S. executives, Charles Harting Percy, youthful (39) president of Chicago's camera making Bell & Howell Co., is perhaps the most fervent preacher of the thesis that "the responsibility of business goes beyond making products for a profit." Businessmen are also obliged, says Percy, to serve society. While running Bell & Howell, the world's biggest producer of motion-picture equipment (1958 sales: $59 million), cleft-chinned Chuck Percy has found plenty of time to serve society. He sits on the board of the University of Chicago ("I am a better businessman for getting my head...
...Co-education," sneered Yale. "Good enough for them," was Princeton's considered opinion. And so it went. But one cloying doubt remained at Radcliffe: the 'Cliffe had not yet completely infiltrated Harvard's ranks...