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...eight years he spent as chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Sir Paul Chambers, 63, shook up Britain's largest private company from the front office to the production line. He turned a stodgy, Commonwealth-oriented company into a lean operation with new muscle to flex on world markets. Now Chambers wants out. For all his efforts, I.C.I.'s actual performance remains sluggish. And he puts part of the blame on Labor government policies; he complains that "any fool can save the pound by damming the economy." Opting for a far less demanding job, Chambers will leave I.C.I...
...watched. This year the HUC hitched up its pants and made a public request to the Committee on Houses. Dean Ford's reply was negative, stating, in effect, that the Committee would increase parietals when it was ready to. An independent Student Committee on Parietals has begun to flex its muscles while the HUC has salvaged a weak prize, a joint informal dinner meeting with the Masters and Deans...
What to do with these people once they've been stirred up is a question no one's trying to answer at CNC headquarters. Walzer expects the local residents to learn how to flex their own political muscle. Neighborhood residents mobilized by the CNC have already formed two research committees to discuss possible courses of action...
...Bank, 52, who married a Shapiro: "The old days, when you walked into a drugstore and bought a hand-dipped product, are gone forever." Today, packaged ice-cream accounts for 72% of the 800 million gallons sold annually in the U.S. To win that market, Maryland Cup developed the Flex-E-Fill, a 1,200-lb. stainless steel machine capable of packaging 44 kinds of ice-cream products in different sizes at speeds of up to 200 pieces a minute. The company has "loaned" 300 Flex-E-Fills to dairies, makes its money on the containers they buy to feed...
...this summer is the Cannonball, a plastic cone with a gum-ball at the bottom of the ice cream. Another is called the Madcap and may revolutionize the Popsicle market. Madcaps are inverted cones of ice cream on a stick, can be spewed out in carloads by the Flex-E-Fills, and will, Maryland Cup hopes, dominate the "sticks" that are ice cream's biggest single specialty seller...