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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cold Cash. Ovral will be only the latest addition to American Home's highly diverse collection of scores of bottled, boxed, wrapped and canned products. Founded 42 years ago in a merger of a group of drug companies, American Home soon moved beyond the medicine cabinet. Though ethical drugs, ranging from antibiotics to Equanil to Sabin polio vaccine, account for 35% of sales, and proprietary drugs supply another 17%, American Home now reaches into such diverse lines as kitchenware and candy...
...former Douglas Aircraft plant official, has doubled his executive team to a total of 16 men, started several new projects in Northern California, and spread out to Seattle. Next year, he expects to begin building more homes in Chicago and Washington. Watt thus joins the small but growing group of big-volume builders whose ties with capital-rich corporations are enabling them to spread out their Operations to wider areas...
...ailment; in Philadelphia. On May 18, 1912, when the Detroit Tigers angrily refused to play a game with the Athletics (after Ty Cobb was suspended for hitting a fan three days before), Travers, then a student at Philadelphia's St. Joseph's College, was one of a group of sandlotters recruited to face the A's. The fans were mightily amused, but the pros showed no mercy, bombing Travers for 24 runs on 25 hits...
...this fast and fickle culture, British Critic Cyril Connolly once declared, it is ambition enough for any author to set out to write a book that will last ten years. "And of how many books," he asked, "is that true today?" One notable example is this artful, bracing group of stories, Grace Paley's first and, so far, only book. Little noticed when it was published in 1959, it has since won enough readers and impressed enough critics to justify a new edition even before its first decade...
...Board of Trustees appointed a special committee of Board members "to study and recommend changes in the basic structure of the University." They also requested that a similar study be made by the Executive Committee of the Faculty, an ad hoc group of about 500 faculty members who have expressed their disagreement with the proposed student strike...