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Last week, as Grace issued its annual report for 1961, it was clear that the "old lady" had discovered an economic fountain of youth. On sales of $535 million, Grace last year turned a profit of $19 million-up 16% from 1960 and a whopping 138% from 1952. Secret of this remarkable rejuvenation was Grace's own chemical formula. In a single decade, Grace has transformed itself from a shipping and trading company into a worldwide chemical producer, now ranks among the top dozen U.S. chemical companies and counts on chemicals for two-thirds of its income...
...Saturday there will be an afternoon crew race at M.I.T. In the evening the Richard Maltby Band will play at a formal dance in the Union. The formal also includes two half-hour performances by the "Four Aces," whose "Three Coins in a Fountain" sold over one million records...
Endlessly and continuously, Like water gushing from a fountain...
...brand-new ships for the '60s (see color pages ) are a calculated gamble that luxury and leisure can compete with speed. The France, in addition to French food, has two swimming pools, eight bars, two cabarets, a teen-age center with jukeboxes, a shooting gallery, dance floor, soda fountain, children's dining rooms and nurseries. Television sets in the smoking and reading rooms pick up closed circuit programs of films, shipboard news and French lessons. Special dog kennels provide hydrants for American dogs, milestones for the French. There is a sports center, a huge hospital (operating room, delivery...
...party newspaper denounced the activities of Mrs. Toan and Mrs. Hoa. a pair of resourceful peddlers who operate a portable Woolworth's on one of Hanoi's main streets. One morning, a Red reporter had visited all the state trade stores with out finding a single fountain pen. He then watched while Mrs. Toan and Mrs. Hoa sold dozens of fountain pens in less than an hour, in addition to razor blades, moth balls, nylon stockings, shoelaces, buttons and aspirin tablets-all in short supply at the state stores...