Word: ince
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes in Charlotte, N.C., second city in state to agree to serve whites and Negroes alike (first: Winston-Salem). In Knoxville, Tenn., three stores (Miller's, Sears, Roebuck & Co., and Rich's) closed lunch counters permanently because of sit-ins. Texas' J. Weingarten, Inc., with 45 lunch counters in its supermarkets, is installing automatic equipment in some for integrated stand-up lunches...
...rough jousting for prime defense contracts, the small business with fewer than 1,000 employees usually fares badly against the giants. But last week the missile industry was abuzz over little Acoustica Associates, Inc. (sales for the fiscal year ending February 1960: $8,106,788), which became the first small business to be chosen a prime contractor for the operational Atlas missile system...
Competing against such giants as General Dynamics Corp.'s Convair, North American Aviation, Inc. and General Electric Co., Acoustica won a contract to develop and produce a crucial system for the Air Force's Atlas ICBMs. Acoustica devised a series of ultrasonic sensors to measure the level of liquid oxygen and kerosene in the Atlas...
...which the federal tax-types got a miserly $198,552 as top bite. The French Republic got an unspeakable $1.02 as last lick. The New York appraisal also brought to light the makeup of Astor's investment portfolio. His biggest holding was in Newsweek, Inc., of which he owned 177,200 shares, valued at $4,857,052 by the state appraisers. Since Astor owned about 60% of Newsweek, Inc.'s outstanding shares, the value of its stock is presumably around...
...contemporary American music these days are being made by a conductor who is not an American and by an orchestra not resident in the U.S. Akeo Watanabe, 41-year-old conductor of the Japan Philharmonic, is his nation's most gifted interpreter of modern scores; for Composers Recordings, Inc. he has now conducted eight modern American works by composers ranging from Aaron Copland to Halsey Stevens, giving them deft and assured readings...