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Last Tuesday the shame disappeared. Gillette is unveiling the Mach3, the three-bladed wonder these three engineers had often glimpsed but never captured. Giddy for men of their age and earnestness, they exhibit their high-tech gizmo in a small, unadorned office in a brick, Industrial Age building in South...
Three of the cleanest-shaven men in the world are beaming. For 27 years the third blade, like Darwin's missing link or Fermat's last theorem, had eluded them. The idea of three blades dancing on the head of a razor was so preposterous that Saturday Night Live used...
The Disney program, revamped, is typical in that it levies some nagging fees: $10 to enroll, $5 plus 4[cents] per share on each purchase by check, and varying charges on shares bought via reinvested dividends. That last fee really irks me. Few programs charge to reinvest dividends. But, hey...
Who needs this? After all, U.S. stocks are on a tear. And familiar multinational blue chips such as Gillette and Coca-Cola get about half their revenue overseas these days. Isn't that enough global exposure?
Inside stores, Coke and Pepsi slug it out as much as anywhere, and you can't buy a soft drink unaffiliated with one of the two. Kellogg's cereals vie for space with Dannon yogurt products. In drug stores, Old Spice, Gillette and Secret occupy the deodorant shelf. Wrangler and...