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...nation's largest independent telephone company, General Telephone Corp. has been eclipsed by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. only because next to A. T. & T. any other corporation would look small. But General Telephone is a giant in its own right. Last week it planned to grow bigger. Its directors approved a deal, subject to stockholder approval on both sides, for General Telephone to take over Sylvania Electric Products Inc. on a share-for-share trade. The result: $1.5 billion in total assets, 76,000 employees...
...best series record on the Bruins' current schedule. The Crimson lost 14 to 6 in 1955, 21 to 12 in 1956; and last year Brown rolled up its highest total of the entire series, soundly thrashing the varsity, 33 to 6. The Crimson, on the other hand, registered its largest score of the series in the very first encounter. It came in 1893, when Brown went down to a sorrowful 58-0 defeat...
...served up a banquet of stewed peanuts, and one paramount chief-His Highness James Okosi II of the Onitsha-fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to ride the escalator at the Charing Cross underground station. In the end, the Nigerians got what they had come for: on Oct. 1, 1960, the largest (373,250 sq. mi.) of Britain's remaining colonial territories would get its independence (TIME. Nov. 3). But behind the scenes the conference had revealed ominous signs of trouble to come...
...Television Programs Inc., largest of the TV film syndicators that have made a $100 million industry out of quickie adventure series for non-network distribution, whooped that their boys make at least as much money as any of the high-priced network talent. Adolphe Menjou grossed $235,000 from Target last year, Lloyd Bridges $300,000 from Sea Hunt, and Richard Carlson will make $287,000 from Mackenzie's Raiders this year. Meanwhile, Jack Paar struggles along on $200,000 for NBC, and CBS's James Arness, whose Gunsmoke has hit the top of the ratings, toils...
...another company cleared more than in 1957-often by venturing into new fields that added to their earning power. Merck & Co., pushing new drugs and chemical processes, raised its earnings to $7.1 million, v. $5.9 in last year's third quarter. National Steel, the nation's fifth-largest steel company, pushed its earnings to $10.9 million from $8 million in the same period last year...