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Chauncey William Wallace ("Tex") Cook is a little like the distressed fellow in the television commercial who says, "I can't believe I ate the whole thing." Cook heads General Foods, which is having trouble digesting all that it has swallowed. Earlier this year General Foods wrote off a...
Died. Louis Perini, 68, baseball club owner who initiated the first major-league franchise shift in 50 years by moving his Boston Braves to Milwaukee in 1953; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A construction and real estate executive who became a Braves owner in 1943, Perini gave a sense of...
At first, the Chinese had been unenthusiastic about the job, perhaps because its franchise overlaps that of the Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs, who happens to be the Soviet Union's Leonid Kutakov. But in the end they accepted, apparently deciding that the new post would...
About the second question--organizing black workers--Gulf doesn't have very many black workers. Recently Gulf bid for the franchise on municipal oil in Dayton. Ohio. They were refused on the grounds that they were discovered to be an unequal employer. In addition, the City Council took note of...
Weight Watchers now franchises 101 operators to run weight-reduction courses in 49 states and some foreign countries, including England, Australia, West Germany and Israel. The franchise holders last year took in $45 million, up $16 million from 1970, largely from registration and other fees; they turn 10% over to...