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...movement toward reform. He named an in dependent committee to review the big department's management, research, procurement and decision-making operations. He also anticipated complaints of conflicts of interest. The year-long study will be headed by Gilbert W. Fitzhugh, 59, chief executive of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., who is, significantly, a man free of any military-industrial connections...
...available in quantity. In February, 18,441,368 copies of Reader's Digest included the little paste-on models. They were so popular that the Digest has since distributed 50 million more, with bulk orders from General Motors, the Department of Defense, Gulf Oil and Chemical Bank & Trust Co. of New York. They, in turn, have handed them out free. The stridently patriotic New York Daily News has-sold half' a million. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has a flag inscribed somewhat belligerently: "Our Flag; love it or leave." And Tiffanys offers a 14-carat lapel...
Burger's decision, reached before he was sworn in as Chief Justice, revoked the license of WLBT-TV of Jackson, Miss., an NBC affiliate. The reason: racial discrimination in programming. The station, owned by the Lamar Life In surance Co., had been accused of permitting racial slurs on the air, excluding news of Jackson's 40% Negro population and cutting off network news reports of civil rights activities...
Mile-Long Trains. In the project, the two principal Australian companies -Broken Hill Proprietary Co. and Colonial Sugar Refining Co.-have an impressive line-up of international partners. American Metal Climax has a 25% interest; Japan's Mitsui and C. Itoh and Britain's Selection Trust Ltd. hold lesser shares. Their hardest job has been to get the ore out from the Mount Newman area, which is 780 miles by road from the nearest large city, Perth. In just 14 months, U.S. and Canadian companies laid down 265 miles of railroad track to connect the site with Port...
...Anaconda Co., the world's biggest copper producer, refused two years ago to sell Chile any portion of its huge Chuquicamata and El Salvador mines, the source of 61% of the company's annual production and half of its earnings. Since then, the Latin American political winds have shifted. Last week Anaconda management decided that paid-for nationalization of the two mines, offered by moderate President Eduardo Frei, was better than the outright expropriation that Chilean leftists were demanding...