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Fourth Largest. The new firm, to be run by McDonnell and to be called the McDonnell Douglas Corp., will be the fourth largest U.S. aircraft maker-after Boeing, North American Aviation and Lockheed. The merger will produce benefits for both partners. McDonnell, which has always built military aircraft, will be able to spread its product line, increase its earnings with such well-regarded commercial airplanes as the Douglas DC-8 and DC-9. And Douglas, with McDonnell's backing, should now be able to get loans of about $400 million that bankers were loath to make because of Douglas...
...company also turns out black-and-white TV, FM/AM radios, stereo consoles, portable phonographs, and a TV-radio-phono combination called Color Stereo Theater. For industry, the firm produces computerized-data storage units, and the new Xerox-marketed Magnafax-a copying machine that transmits and receives facsimiles of documents, memos and letters via standard telephones. Magnavox backlog-virtually all of it in military orders for walkie-talkies, radar units, aircraft and mobile ground communications equipment, satellite signal receivers, and submarine-detecting "Sonobuoys"-stands at $152 million. As if all that were not enough, Magnavox has entered the wooden-furniture business...
...self-effacing chuckles and patterning his sales messages on the speeches of Richard Nixon. He moves on from Fraser-Blau to the folks at Ritter Pfaud, from the Zayre Corp. to the Udylite people, finally reaching zenith with the "management group of Mr. Grunewald's organization, a firm widely respected for its pioneering work in the development of inert ingredients...
First Elsie's and then the Graduate Center. But Harvard has refused to be chased up the spiral: Dudley House prices will stay firm, and the hamburger still goes for 30 cents...
Quoting Kozol out of context, or summarizing his story, cannot possibly convey the general restraint which allows such horrors to be mastered and integrated smoothly. His short, firm sentences, with their simple rhythms, have great incorporative power. Furthermore, the characters of David's dream repeat phrases that sound supremely factual and establish reassuring landmarks in our yoyages through the subconscious. Thus the wrestling coach: "Schreiber, I want you to such a lemon: when the acid gets on your tonsils it turns to sugar...