Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Webb did testify that North American's share of the $23 billion Apollo project is being cut back. The California-based firm will continue as prime contractor, while Boeing has been selected to put together the spacecraft and the rocket boosters; a third firm will be chosen to make custom modifications on the 16 standardized capsules to be produced by North American under the original contract. "In this way," he added, "North American will be spending all its time on one standardized spacecraft without any outside distractions...
Harvard can operate one of five major computers from 50 keyboards around campus and is putting another 25 in student dormitories starting next month. One result will be to allow economics students to pretend that they manage a business firm; as they make decisions on wages, prices and products, the computer will monitor their profits-or losses. The University of Michigan uses computers in 150 courses, ranging from literature to political science, but mostly in engineering. More than 90% of the undergraduates at M.I.T., where 150 remote computer consoles are available, regularly use computers. Like the system at such other...
...River Mills, a medium-sized Virginia textile firm (1966 sales: $281 million), and smaller, North Carolina-based Fieldcrest Mills ($171 million) decided to copy the long-established industry pattern by merging. If stockholders approve a swap of securities worth some $87 million, the merged company will have combined sales of more than $450 million, a strong position as the U.S.'s fourth biggest publicly owned textile company (after Burlington Industries, J. P. Stevens & Co. and United Merchants and Manufacturers), and a new name: Dan River Fieldcrest...
...first, it's hard to believe that Vaughn does not want to be Senator, or even Governor of California. After all, he is an actor, the Man from U.N.C.L.E.; one of Hollywood's Golden Boys. The firm precise features, the lavish year-round tan, the sleek hair tipped with gray--in short, the sort of well-known, personable entertainer with whom Spencer Roberts could do wonders. In a dark blue, pin-striped suit with rep tie, Vaughn looks like a million votes...
Before another Lam is led to slaughter, it might be wise for Bob Hope to try another production firm. This-the 52nd film he has starred in-was churned out by Hope Enterprises, a family affair. For comedians, it's sometimes better to do business with strangers...