Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country's new Premier. Fock, who replaces Gyula Kállai, 57, is the author of Hungary's "New Economic Mechanism," which goes into effect next year. He is expected to steer a middle course between the conservatives, who want to keep the economy in the firm grip of the party planners, and those who advocate a major role for private initiative both in the factories and on the ailing kholkozes (collective farms...
...professor of gynecology who was educated at Bonn and later taught there, sat down in 1924 to write about uterine cancer, he postulated that cancer in its first stages must produce ulcers or tumors too small to be seen by the naked eye. He worked with the Leitz optical firm to produce the first colposcope-essentially a pair of binoculars with a light source, mounted on a pedestal. Though the device has been improved, the principle remains the same today. A choice of lenses gives magnifications from six to 25 diameters, and most models of the colposcope carry a camera...
...Hessian farmer, he became a Luftwaffe general-staff major assigned to assessing war needs. "That was my first strong contact with industrial planning," he says. At war's end he took a clerk's job in Mannheim with the German subsidiary of the Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri & Cie, which makes all kinds of electrical equipment from home appliances to locomotives. Within twelve years, Lotz rose to chairman. He and the Swiss fell out over a small computer company in which he had invested to compete with U.S. computer makers, only to have it lose money. Lotz...
Married. Phyllis Field Drummond, 30, daughter of the late Marshall Field III, heir to the Chicago department-store empire and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times; and Louis de Flers, 35, general manager of a French chemical firm; she for the second time, he for the first; in Ridgeland...
Died. Emil Frei Jr., 71, one of the foremost U.S. artists in stained glass, who took over his father's glass firm to promote a revival of an art that had waned since its flowering in the Middle Ages, combining richly colored abstract forms and contemporary symbolism, thus creating effects no other medium can achieve; after a long heart illness; in Kirkwood...