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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merger-minded Litton Industries, each of the 50 divisions draws up an annual "opportunity review," which looks five years ahead at technologies, situations and companies that the firm ought to be getting into. The managers of the fastest-growing firm in U.S. business history judge potential merger mates by three measures, in order of importance: 1) Does the product line fit with ours? 2) Is the management right? 3) Is the price right? One company that seemed made to measure was well-managed and profitable Diebold, Inc., the nation's largest manufacturer of banking equipment, with 1965 sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: The Opportunity List | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...rush right down to the Coop as soon as it opens today, you may be in time to snatch up one of the last remaining copies of Human Sexual Response, one of the fastest selling medical books since the Kinsey Report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bookstores Find Sex Study Sells Well In Square | 4/28/1966 | See Source »

This failure, Dr. Cravioto suggested, may be related to the fact that a baby's brain grows fastest at birth and shortly afterward, gaining weight at the rate of about an ounce every two weeks. Reporting similar findings in laboratory animals, the University of London's Dr. John Dobbing said that underfeeding of newborn rats and pigs interferes with the growth of fatty, myelin sheaths around nerve fibers. And this brain damage cannot be fully repaired by normal feeding in later life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Research: Food & the Mind | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

Luckily, many of them can. Senior George Anderson, 23, a native of Baton Rouge, La., was the world's No. 1 ranked sprinter in 1965; he has clocked 9.3 sec. for the 100-yd. dash. New Orleans' Theron Lewis, 21, is the U.S.'s fastest quarter miler-at 45.8 sec.-runs the anchor leg on Southern's one-mile relay team, which tied the world record (3 min. 4.5 sec.) at last year's California Relays. Robert Johnson, of Princeton, La., is 21 and only a sophomore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: See Southern Run | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

Sophomore Chris Cutler paced the third varsity boat over a 1000-mater course to a four and a half length lead in 3:20.4. The freshmen, who led off the regatta, covered the Henley distance in 6:14.8, which was the fastest time for the day. Columbia was 24 seconds back. The Cantabs rowed the race at a 30, understroking the Light Blue by 10 or 12 beats the whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lightweight Crew Sweeps Five Races From Columbia | 4/18/1966 | See Source »

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