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Nibbling Ocean. This is what happened about a million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene, and the earth might have remained forever in perpetual deep freeze if not for a hid den weakness of the Antarctic icecap. As the ice spread out over the southern ocean, colder ice came in contact once more with the rock below it, freezing the slippery water layer between ice and rock (see diagram). This was the turning point. Held fast to the rock, the ice stopped moving. The ice shelf was nibbled away by the ocean, and the earth could capture more...
From the time the Du Ponts took over, Sloan and G.M. were inseparable. He took hold of the seemingly unmanageable collection of divisions, some of which hid their cash from the others, and shook hard; he brought order out of chaos, and thus geared the company for a growth that hardly anyone else foresaw. He instituted G.M.'s famed-and often copied-system of "decentralization with coordinated control," emphasized selling autos on the installment plan, and set up G.M.'s first efficient auto-dealer system...
Divorced. By Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, 46, multimillionaire Brazilian playboy: Ira von Furstenburg Pignatari, 23, whose first husband, Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 40, dislikes her second so much that he hid their two children until Ira had to choose between her babies and Baby; after three years of marriage, no children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Las Vegas...
...Press since 1928, has kept Cleveland first in his heart. Ohio comes next. Then the U.S., and then the world. After that, perhaps, come the interests of the Scripps-Howard chain to which the paper belongs. No cause is too large for the Press-or too small. It hid a camera in a bawdyhouse and snapped pictures of city cops taking lunch there. When the Press disagreed with the Cleveland Bar Association's candidate for the municipal bench, it asked its readers to write in the name of an unknown young lawyer whom the paper preferred. The young lawyer...
...myself. I'd like someone to care for me in the same way that I care about myself." If the physician treats this patient's physical complaints and nothing more, said Dr. Stainbrook, he is wasting everybody's time. For the real medical truth is hid den in the patient's locked-up emotions...