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...advocating children being tortured or the prospect of research on children being used as a lever to keep people away," he said. "But I feel very strongly that if day care is set up, it should be with some sort of studying involved...
AMERICAN investment in foreign countries is often an irritation to foreigners, who worry about alien economic dominance. What is far less visible and less controversial is the great foreign stake in the U.S. Few Americans realize that when they launder clothes with Lever Brothers' Lux, drink Lipton's Tea, open a can of Libby's tomato juice or groom their hair with Beecham's Brylcreem, they are buying from companies owned or controlled by foreigners...
...least nine huge U.S. corporations are foreign-controlled. The Netherlands-British Royal Dutch/Shell Group controls 69% of Shell Oil; Belgium's Petrofina owns two-thirds of American Petrofina; AKU of The Netherlands controls American Enka; The Netherlands-British Unilever owns both Lever Brothers and Thomas J. Lipton; Distillers Corp.-Seagrams of Canada has Joseph E. Seagram; Italy's Olivetti company is outright owner of Olivetti Underwood; the Swiss Nestle Co. holds one-third of Libby, McNeill & Libby, and Canada's George Weston Limited has 57% of National...
...their richest export market-the U.S.-Swiss watchmakers face rising competition from domestic manufacturers in all price lines. U.S. Time Corp., which prices its Timex models as low as $7.95, claims to sell more than 50% of watches bought in U.S. stores. Bulova, biggest American producer of jeweled-lever watches (1969 sales: $159 million), is an increasingly tough competitor in the medium-and high-priced range. Swiss manufacturers lost their technological lead when Bulova developed the battery-powered Accutron a decade ago. The company has since sold more than 1,500,000 Accutrons and brought the price down...