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Last week tradition-loving Bostonians could hardly believe the news. Stockholders of the family-owned firm had just agreed to sell it (for some $10 million cash) to Laird Industries Inc., a newly formed subsidiary of Laird & Co., the New York stockbrokerage and investment banking house. Though Laird plans to keep the famous grocery line - and stylish manner - it will install as new president and chief executive Roger D. Williams, 42, former executive vice president of Rheingold Breweries. S.S. Pierce President Wallace L. Pierce, 55, a great-grandson of the founder, will stay on as chairman...
However, Rep. Melvin R. Laird of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Republican Conference, said the Vietnam war budget is already out of date when compared with present spending levels...
...expected to reach $2,000,000. Two weeks ago, in order to obtain funds, the archdiocese sold its interest to a group of 15 pension funds, universities, hospitals and individuals. It had to pay $1,000,000, covering legal fees and a commission, to the Wall Street firm of Laird & Co., which arranged the transaction. But the sales price, along with the yearly royalty payments, , meant a cool $25.5 million collected from Listerine...
Winning Direction. Despite his 1964 apostasy-which still irks many Republicans-and regardless of lingering Alibis about his intellectual depth, most party leaders nonetheless concede Romney a substantial edge for 1968. "He is indisputably the leading candidate now," said Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference and a longtime skeptic about Romney's presidential qualifications...
...Democrats' "destructive centralism," urges Republicans to begin "revitalizing state and local governments," but so far has had little to say on most national and international issues. Though he was expected to win a third term, few experts anticipated the extent of his victory. Before the election, Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference, observed cagily that to become a serious presidential contender, Romney would not only have to win reelection by a heavy margin but would also have to carry G.O.P. Senator Robert Griffin and a couple of doubtful Congressmen in with...