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Procter & Gamble prides itself on knowing a promising young man when it sees one. In 1962 it took one look at Eugene Mayfield, a personable, 24-year-old graduate of Oberlin College and snapped him up. Mayfield worked for two years as a junior advertising writer for Crest, P.&G.'s top-selling fluoridated toothpaste ("My group had 34% fewer cavities with . . ."). Then, for reasons of his own, he quit P & G last July for a Chicago food flavoring firm. With him he took a memento of his work at P. &G.: a 188-page copy...
Last week Mayfield was named defendant in an industrial-espionage case bizarre enough to qualify for an Alec Guinness movie. He was indicted by a federal grand jury for making an illegal phone call and transporting stolen goods across state lines. As Government agents described events, Mayfield made a telephone call- that illegal call- to an acquaintance employed by Colgate-Palmolive, maker of Colgate toothpaste and Cue, strong competitors of Crest. He offered to sell the marketing plans to Colgate...
Instead of giving him the brush Colgate called in the FBI, then led Mayneld on. He and a Colgate contact man agreed to meet in a specified men's room at New York City's Kennedy International Airport. There they entered adjoining cubicles and Mayfield, shrewdly calculating how to delay any possible pursuit by the Colgate man, demanded that he remove his trousers and hand them over. Mayfield then handed over the Crest plan, in return received $20,000-in marked bills. As he rushed out, he was arrested by FBI agents. If convicted, Mayfield could...
...Revolution at the Vicarage." Paul's recommendations will be debated at the Church Assembly next month. Meantime, his ideas touched off what London's Sunday Times called "a battle royal" among the clergy. In the Anglo-Catholic Church Times, the Venerable Guy Mayfield, Archdeacon of Hastings, summed up the report as "sometimes unhappy and amateurish and sometimes superfluous." Roman Catholics and Methodist ministers spoke up in envy of the freedom of speech that went with the "virtual irremovability" of the Anglican vicar. But nearly everyone agreed that something had to be done about the outdated freehold system...
...perhaps the strangest evidence of all was that Chief Flight Engineer John Mayfield had blithely repaired a fuel pump motor on the Constellation the day before the crash by cutting down a brush taken from a 1954 Mercury automobile generator. As it turned out, the engine with the ersatz part kept going during the fatal flight. But engineers from established airlines blinked in dismay at Imperial's incredibly slipshod methods of maintenance. Said one: "They must have been a little desperate...