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Died. Whitley Charles Collins, 61, president of Northrop Aircraft, Inc.; of a circulatory ailment; in Los Angeles. A banker by training, Collins brought financial know-how to Northrop when he took over in 1954, in four years saw its sales rise from $171 million to $256 million...
Said the New Statesman: "It is his capacity that is in doubt, not his will . . . The result is hand-to-mouth government, without either a set purpose or the political know-how to carry out whatever vague aims the President may conceive...
...Alleghany Chairman and President Allan Kirby. Mrs. Young was long a silent partner in her husband's business affairs. At one time, during the 30's, she was a partner in his brokerage firm of Young, Kolbe & Co. She should, said an associate, add considerable financial know-how to Alleghany's board since "she had a good teacher...
...offensive? Seeking a strategy, President Eisenhower last year picked a blue-chip team of U.S. capitalists, headed by President Harold Boeschenstein of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.* Last week the committee reported that the real cold-war economic challenge is to stimulate the export of more U.S. products, capital and know-how to all nations. It suggested a step-up in U.S. nonstrategic trade with the Soviet bloc, arguing that "if additional consumption of consumer goods could be stimulated, the result might be to produce pressures within the bloc, tending to divert resources from war potential to consumer goods." That would...
Since most food processors have neither the facilities nor the know-how, it will usually be up to the chemical manufacturers themselves to prove the safety of additives. The law covers those already in use, with a time allowance for testers to tackle the backlog, as well as any proposed for future use. The test technique : put the additive in an appropriate food and give it to laboratory animals (150 rats, 21 dogs, at three-dose levels) for their natural lifetime or a minimum of two years. Even if the critters die natural deaths, their bodies will still be dissected...