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...Stanley C. Allyn, the chairman of National Cash Register Co., whose products start with the grocer's $200 till and top off with a $1,000,000 electronic computer. "Chick" Allyn already counts 40% of his profit from his business abroad, figures to up that ratio to 50% this year. Says he: "We're not going to compete with foreign producers just by yelling for tariffs. It's going to take hard work. If we get fat and lazy, we'll wind up a second-rate nation...
...Americans had been virtually sure to get a red hat: Archbishop Albert Gregory Meyer, 56, appointed last September to succeed Chicago's late Samuel Cardinal Stritch as head of the largest Catholic archdiocese in the U.S. (1,942,000 members). Shy, scholarly Archbishop Meyer, son of a Milwaukee grocer, is known as a brilliant administrator and a cautious interviewee-on his appointment to Chicago he refused to say whether he would transfer his allegiance from the Milwaukee Braves to the Chicago Cubs. Met by a crowd of newsmen and clerics at a Chicago airport last week, as he returned...
Last week a fiery-eyed grocer's son stood among 2,000 cheering Moroccans in a Casablanca movie house to announce the formation of a new political party, the National Union of Popular Forces. It was the most important political development in Morocco since the North African kingdom got its independence 3½ years ago, and it made its leader, 39-year-old Mehdi ben Barka, the most important man in Morocco next to King Mohammed V and the monarchy's unquestioned challenger...
...visitors crowded close about the church in a drenching rain, tall, bespectacled Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of the Governor of New York and scion of one of the world's greatest fortunes, was joined in marriage to blonde, buxom Anne-Marie Rasmussen, 21, the daughter of a retired grocer and onetime housemaid in the 27-room triplex Manhattan apartment of the Rockefeller family...
Another innovator was ex-Army Mess Sergeant Maurice Sullivan (now married to the daughter of a Chinese grocer) who combined with other small grocers in Oahu to buy food stocks by carload lot direct from mainland suppliers. Soon he eliminated Big Five middlemen, who had long controlled virtually all imports from the mainland, is now the owner of the modernistic, eleven-store Foodland chain of supermarkets...