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True Bounce. Newest of the synthetics is Center Court, a smooth, felt-like acrylic carpet that may give lawn tennis its biggest boost in years. Manufactured by J. P. Stevens Co. for former Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood's Tennis Development Corp., Center Court is quick-drying, comes in 15-ft.-wide strips that are taped together on the underside. In one day, it can be laid over an existing clay or asphalt court with only a layer of honeycomb wire in between for drainage. It can also be laid on bare, level ground over a preparatory layer of polystyrene...
Last week former Commerce Secretary John Connor, now president of Allied Chemical Corp., advised President Johnson to drop his proposal for a 6% income-tax surcharge later this year-a move strongly backed by many other businessmen, who argue that the increase would stifle business recovery. With or without higher taxes, Socony Mobil Oil Chairman Albert Nickerson predicts nothing more than "very moderate" economic gains this year, partly because "private industry is sluggish, but all levels of Government spending...
Made by Pittsburgh's General Ordnance Equipment Corp., the incapacitating spray that tamed the Fremont wifebeater is fired from a small tube and irritates the eyes, nose and skin. More important, the fumes can cause dizziness and almost instant apathy. The sprayed suspect usually just sits down until he is led away. The effects last no more than half an hour. For police, the device is the first, if not the final, answer to a nationwide need-a weapon that disables as effectively as a gun and yet does no permanent injury...
Texan Sherrill, in fact, had been a tough man to catch ever since the eighth grade, when at 15 he joined the Marine Corps and, before reaching draft age, was fighting on Bougainville. At 17, he landed at Guam and Iwo Jima, where he was winged in the arm. While at a Navy hospital, he took education tests and scored so high that he skipped high school to enter the University of Houston. From there he went to Harvard Business School. Returning to Houston, he became city treasurer and chief administrative officer in four years. Then he joined College...
...seafarer, Reed Oliver Hunt has fared remarkably well on land. As chairman and chief executive of San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach Corp., one of the world's largest manufacturers of paper products, Hunt, 62, presides over an empire that controls 2,730,000 acres of forest, operates 15 mills, keeps 26,000 people working. Through its subsidiary Zellerbach Paper Co., the company markets some 25,000 products. At its annual meeting last week Crown Zellerbach announced record first-quarter earnings of $11.7 million on sales of $187.5 million-which sent its stock to a 1967 high...