Word: corp
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...assembled to scrutinize the nation's schooling. Eisenhower's conference was dominated by public-school administrators, school-board representatives, and such vested interests as the National Education Association. More in evidence at the Johnson meeting was a new breed of outside innovators, such as Carnegie Corp. President John Gardner who served as chairman; U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel, who does not even hold a graduate degree; and a host of university-oriented reformers, ranging from James B. Conant to President John H. Fischer of Columbia University's Teachers College...
...burglar's clothing, simply because atomic particles emit specific radiation patterns when properly stimulated in a nuclear reactor. The patterns are projected on an oscilloscope screen, and if those from the burglar match those from the door, he might as well plead guilty. Developed by General Dynamics Corp.'s General Atomic Division, N.A.A. has already won convictions in Canada, New York and California, was used to link Lee Oswald with the rifle that killed President Kennedy...
...drop in the bucket to thirsty cities such as New York, which daily consumes 1.25 billion gal. The governments of the U.S. and Israel are now jointly studying the possibility of building nuclear desalinization plants with daily outputs of 100 million gal. For the Los Angeles region, Bechtel Corp. has recently completed the first stage of a study calling for a two-reactor nuclear plant that theoretically, by 1972, could turn out 150 million gal. per day, at a cost...
...Simon. The California industrialist, who has broadened his Hunt Foods into a far-reaching company (TIME cover, June 4), has been a prime stockholder in ABC for more than two years. Last week it was disclosed that he has bought much more stock through Hunt and a subsidiary, McCall Corp., boosting his stake from 6% to 9% of the outstanding shares. He owns 400,000 shares, which makes him ABC's largest holder...
...urgency," said Simon. "We will keep on buying so long as it is a good buy." He insisted that he did not want a director's seat; that Goldenson "leaves me with quite positive feelings about ABC and its future." Television executives, however, remembered the cases of McCall Corp. and Wheeling Steel, in which Simon followed the pattern of investment-takeover-management upheaval. Goldenson seems secure in his job so long as ABC, in an industry that shifts more swiftly than sand, keeps its share of viewers. Whatever happens to Gidget, Tammy or Jesse James...