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...elusive and often per- plexing art. The mechanics of inscribing notations, for one thing, is such a tedious and time-consuming task that for centuries composers and musicians have been searching for an easier and faster way of writing music. Now Brit ain's Imperial Typewriter Co. Ltd. is of fering just that - a typewriter that types music...
...streets. It was at the time scarcely worth its price of 100; it was a tangle of printer's errors, garbled copy, unscannable headlines and whole pages run upside down. Unable to subscribe to a domestic wire service, the Daily Press limped along with a British import, Reuters Ltd., and the Dow-Jones ticker. It cribbed unabashedly from radio newscasts, engraved photos snapped directly from the TV tube...
...that stem from his family's sale of one of Canada's biggest auto manufacturing firms to G.M. in 1918, is R. (for Robert) Samuel McLaughlin of Oshawa, Ont. Though he is 93, McLaughlin still puts in several hours a day as chairman of G.M. of Canada Ltd., likes to show off his fitness by urging companions to "feel my muscle" and to punch him squarely in the stomach...
...world walks in everything from sandals and slippers to sabots and bare soles, but its largest shoemaker covets every foot - and aims to cover it. This year Canada's Bata Ltd. (pronounced Bot-ya) will produce 190 million pairs of shoes in 3,000 styles sewn in 80 plants scattered over 67 countries. It has opened 16 plants in the past three years, last week opened another on tiny Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, and plans to build two more soon in Uganda and France. To run this mixed shoe bag more effectively, Bata next month will move into...
...whose outcomes sometimes depend on milliseconds of difference. Last week, as the 18th Games got under way in Tokyo, the official timepieces were not European for the first time in Olympics history. They were Japanese, and they all bore one name: Seiko, the brand mark of K. Hattori & Co., Ltd., Japan's biggest watchmaker (1963 sales: $98 million...