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New profit highs were also reached by such varied companies as Du Pont, Motorola, Texaco, Sun Oil, Minnesota Mining, United Air Lines-and those that did not set new marks contented themselves with hefty hikes. B. F. Goodrich raised profits 15.5%, and Reynolds Metals 25%. The nation's second...
On a believe-it-or-not basis, museum officials, including President Harry Guggenheim, insisted that since the museum lacks the display space to show the paintings, they wanted to disperse the work. "We are done now," said the contented Guggenheim. "Before, it was a bit like misers going down into...
Scripps-Howard was thoroughly aware of the implications of its newest monopoly and set out to discourage the possibility of any Government suit. The Enquirer's five-man voting trust, set up by employees in 1952 to manage the paper, was perpetuated; the chain contented itself with a minority...
> Common life is a blessed thing: "I took the regular train home, looking out of the window at a peaceable landscape and a spring evening, and it seemed to me that fishermen and lone bathers and grade-crossing watchmen and sand-lot ballplayers and lovers unashamed of their sport and...
> Life itself survives its detractors: "I think of some plumber who, waked by the rain, will smile at a vision of the world in which all the drains are miraculously cleaned and free . . . I think that the rain will wake some old lady, who will wonder if she has left...