Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promotion tour of Brazil, French Couturier Pierre Cardin, 45, recklessly denied that high fashion makes any impression on the enamored eye. "For a man, the woman he desires is always in style," said he, "and it's not necessary for her to be dressed up to be loved. For a woman to be loved, she usually ought to be naked...
Getting Itchy. Katz has his eye on a bigger package. In 1960, he paid $1,700,000 for the 91-year-old Massachusetts firm of LePage's, which makes glue and adhesive tape. He has since streamlined the operation, cutting out unprofitable lines, and LePage's is now in the black. Last year Papercraft entered a new field-that of vinyl tablecloths and place mats that look like lace-by buying out the Eastern Industrial Plastics Corp., since renamed American Universal Plastics...
...past 90 days, Katz has looked over 30 companies with an eye toward acquisition. "We're getting itchy," he says. "We are strong enough now to take on some pretty good-sized companies." But his ambitions go far beyond that. "Some day," he says, "I would like to take over a really giant company. I think about it a lot. While I'm shaving or driving to work...
...Tory Macmillan chose him for the chairmanship, Alf Robens took the job only, or so he said, because he did not want it to go to "Lord Montgomery or someone like that." For all his socialist background, Robens was made a baron in 1961, and soon showed a gifted eye for profit. By closing down unprofitable collieries and pushing mechanization, he helped the industry into the black in 1962 for the first time in six years...
...that most firms could move out lock, stock and barrel with little trouble at all, if need be. It is a fact of Hong Kong business life that factory machinery has long been designed for easy loading aboard ships. Business has always been transacted in Hong Kong with an eye to quick returns and with relatively little capital tied down in buildings and such. Factories are expected to return their investment in four years, apartment houses in five to six years...