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...sports car. But though both dishwashers and sports cars can be bought on credit, loans have long been hard to get on so undispossessable a thing as an education. In 1960 a group of businessmen and educators, chiefly in Indiana and California, founded the United Student Aid Funds Inc. in an effort to make student loans easier...
...cushioned soles and warm, luxurious slipper comfort, but true shoe smartness." Courtesy Products has a "new Bra-form, Post Mortem Form Restoration . . . they accomplish so much for so little ($11 for a package of 50)," and at a recent convention of the National Funeral Directors' Association, Florence Gowns Inc. of Cleveland showed a line of "hostess gowns and brunch coats" for loved ones...
While big business surges to new profit records, the nation's 300,000 small manufacturers complain that the boom is passing them by. Most share the lament of Chairman Glenn H. Friedt Jr. of Detroit's United Platers, Inc., which handles chrome plating for the fast-moving automakers: "I find it embarrassing to admit that this year is no better than last year." Worse yet, Dun & Bradstreet reports that 87% of the nation's 15,800 bankruptcies last year were small businesses, i.e., those with liabilities of less than...
...Tyco Laboratories, Inc. of Waltham, Mass., has developed a laser that seems to have the necessary simplicity. Invented by Drs. A. I. Mlavsky and L. B. Griffiths, it is a .02-in. cube of silicon carbide (carborundum), 4Two opposite sides are carefully polished, and electrodes are attached to antfcher two. When a weak direct current of electricity is passed through the cube, a thin line in its center glows with green-blue light. But this is not pure laser light. It is merely ordinary mixed-up light of varying frequencies. When the current passes a critical strength...
Local Talent. The new program closely follows proposals made by Roy E. Larsen, chairman of Time Inc.'s Executive Committee and vice chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, and Glenn G. Wolfe, director of the State Department's Cultural Presentations Office. Broad policy decisions are now made by an expert Advisory Committee on the Arts under Larsen's chairmanship; it includes such people as Cleveland Orchestra Conductor George Szell, Juilliard President Peter Mennin, Producer and Director George Seaton, Alley Theatre Director Nina Vance, Sculptor Theodore Roszak, and Manhattan School of Music...