Word: ibm
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Gains and Fumbles. In this year's first quarter, earnings set records at Xerox, Avon Products, IBM, Uniroyal, Bendix and Continental Can. Many companies succeeded very well in squeezing more out of sales. Though its revenues dropped 7% compared with last year's first quarter, McDonnell Douglas' earnings climbed 157%, partly because the company got its troubled Douglas commercial-aircraft division under control. At Union Carbide, profits jumped 28% on a sales increase of only 8%, partly because of a drive to cut costs and increase production at existing facilities. Runaway prices for wood products lifted profits...
...accusation struck Litton as somewhat ironic. The company traces part of a 1968 profit slide to Royal's poor performance in the electric-typewriter market-of which 80% is held by IBM. Litton Chairman Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton promises to fight the suit on grounds that the Triumph-Adler deal would in fact promote "effective competition" in the U.S. market...
...result reads like a combination for an IBM ad in the CRIMSON and Reader's Digest's "From the Campus" section, all the better. They're not going to know it in Des Moines and they're not going to buy it anywhere else. The three Harvard graduates who will gather in the sheckles from this adventure into Madison Avenue conjure up one Ivy stereotype after another, blow on it with their windy wit, and leave it. In the face of unsubtle attempts to infuse rewrites of admissions booklets with local color--paint it whitewash--all of the eight...
...catch up with them and guide them." This may be somewhat easier for Xenakis (whose full name is pronounced Yahn-nis Zen-nahk-ess) than for some of his peers. An accomplished architect, engineer and philosopher as well as a composer, he is enough at home with an IBM 7090 computer to use it in calculating his compositions, which owe a large intellectual debt to the universal language of science: mathematics...
...each country where his books appear. He writes in brief, intense spurts, but he is no longer quite as prolific as he was in 1928, for example, when he turned out 40 books in one year. Simenon's yearly harvest is now four, and he uses an IBM electric typewriter in place of the pencils that once lasted only three lines each before they became blunted and were tossed away. Puffing constantly on a pipe (like Maigret), Simenon begins a book by christening its characters (from a slew of international telephone books he keeps on hand for the purpose...