Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skinner says this "instant correction," along with the programming of the book that lets each student move at his own speed, will help grade-school children learn how to write "much faster" than they...
...inflow of foreign goods. Wine-producing France, for example, puts a crimp on bourbon and Scotch imports by prohibiting all whisky advertising. In Italy, foreign automakers find it difficult to buy prime time on the state-owned television. Switzerland not only restricts imports of milk products but gives special help-including price supports and low-cost feed-to Swiss dairymen whose cows graze in remote areas or on mountain slopes...
Combined Savings. The merger, largest in U.S. maritime history, aims principally at foreign competition, notably that of merged Japanese lines. The Federal Maritime Commission held that the merger would help the three U.S. companies by permitting several million dollars a year in savings through combined operations-without damaging rival U.S. ship operators. The arrangement would also give a new dimension to the career of Oilman Ralph K. Davies, 70, chairman of A.P.L., who controls all three of the merging lines through a complex of stockholdings...
...first glance, ABC had plenty of reason to be disappointed. The No. 3 network behind NBC and CBS, it has been sorely strapped for capital to complete its switchover to color television programming, will need additional funds for coverage of this year's national political conventions. To help out its prospective partner, ITT last year advanced ABC $25 million, which must now be repaid-with interest-within a year...
Nonetheless, ABC greeted Geneen's news with what Vice President James C. Hagerty called "a sort of relief." After all, the ITT deal pretty much constrained the network from seeking other sources of help. Now free to maneuver, ABC may well issue new securities to raise the capital it needs. More likely, it will seek out new merger partners. Two possibilities: General Electric Co. and Litton Industries, both of which expressed interest in the network before ITT came on the scene...