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...finally builds a better mouse trap (see MODERN LIVING) had better be ready to pack it in polyethylene, coat it with form-fitting plastic, ship it off in a fiber can, cram it into a tube or sell it in a tab-opening bottle. Otherwise, the world will no longer beat a path to his door. Attention-getting packaging is the U.S. businessman's new preoccupation. Last week in Chicago the American Management Association's 32nd annual packaging exposition drew 440 exhibitors and 35,000 visitors-triple the attendance of four years ago-to pay homage before piles...
...last week, "we are suffering from a misery of choice." Paperboard competes with plastics, steel with aluminum, thin tin with glass. The latest battle shaping up is between the new composition cans (commonly paperboard covered with foil) and traditional metal cans, which were already warring with glass. Fiber-foil cans cost 15% less than tin-plate cans, are lighter and usually can be opened with less effort. They have already moved into the motor oil can market once dominated by tin plate, and their makers confidently plan to use them for coffee, paint, beer and soft drinks...
...both in trouble. Intense competition had brought a worldwide drop in chemical prices. Britain and the Common Market could not make up their minds about each other. And, acting more tigerish than usual, I.C.I, had pawed hungrily at another company and been seriously scratched itself. To widen its synthetic fiber business. I.C.I, bought heavily into smaller Courtaulds. Ltd. and touched off the biggest proxy fight in British history (TIME, March 23. 1962). Able to secure only 38.5% of Courtaulds stock, I.C.I. not only lost the battle but was generally criticized for grasping, un-British conduct. For Chambers the outcome...
Died. Yetta Wallenda, 42, German-born acrobat and member of the ill-starred Flying Wallendas; of injuries suffered when she apparently fainted at the climax of her solo act atop a swaying fiber glass pole, fell gracefully and silently 50 ft. to the ground; in Omaha. Last year, when a fall killed two other members of the troupe and permanently crippled a third, Yetta said: "When I fall, I want to be dead...
...QUANTUM SAAB has a fiber-glass body developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, using an IBM computer to determine the best body design for road competition, low center of gravity, and good cornering capabilities. It is powered by Saab's 850 GT engine, which has won some top competitions in Europe...