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Companies, like people, do not always like the names they were born with-and more of them than ever are doing something about it. For many U.S. corporations, the name change has become almost a symbol of growth, energy and aggressiveness. Last week Monsanto Chemical Co., which has diversified into...
With evident pleasure the producer of Hallelujah the Hills (David C. Stone) writes that his film is a "zany romantic comedy" which conveys "a feeling of Americana, camaraderie, and youthful adventure." "It has been likened," he continues modestly, "to a combination of Huckleberry Finn, the Marx brothers, Douglas Fairbanks, and...
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford built their fabled 14-acre "Pickfair" and proposed that the community be walled off from the outside world, when the Basil Rathbones ordered snow one slow summer day, provided sleds and skis for a couple of hundred friends. Beverly Hills was then, and is now...
For everyone who has not taken Rice Paddies (Soc. Sci. 111) Professor Fairbanks' terminology might be a little awe-inspiring; but his analysis of cultural and nationalistic strains in Chinese Communist ideology and politics adds a historical perspective that is vital for understanding Chinese policies
Slow Reading. Earlier Tiros satellites stored their pictures on magnetic tape, then transmitted a large batch while passing over expensive installations at Fairbanks, Alaska, Point Mugu, Calif., and Wallops Island, Va. By the time the views from space were forwarded to the world's meteorologists by radio facsimile, they...