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Under Ted Baker, its penurious founder, National Airlines shielded the windows of its Miami headquarters from the sun with brown wrapping paper. When Lewis Maytag Jr., heir to a washing machine fortune, bought Baker out 15 months ago, the first thing he did was to invest in vertical blinds...
...Maytag picked just the right time to take over. In 1961 the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded National the lucrative Southern transcontinental "rocket run" linking the aerospace centers of Cape Canaveral, Houston and the West Coast. Sensing a good opportunity, Maytag, who was then running the Rocky Mountains' local Frontier Airlines, bought Baker's 250,000 shares for $6,400,000 with family help...
Four soft-eyed, cream-colored antelopes with enormous knobby horns frisked in the Phoenix Maytag Zoo last week under constant, anxious watch by their keeper. They are Arabian oryxes, some of the world's rarest animals, and if they thrive in the desert climate of Arizona, they may live to be the only oryxes left on earth...
After a long investigation, Major Grimwood decided that the best place for a "world herd" of Arab-proof oryxes was not in Kenya, but in Phoenix, where the dry, hot climate resembles that of Arabia, and where there is the spacious and hospitable Maytag Zoo. The Arizona Air National Guard, happy to boost the home state, flew a C-97 cargo plane to pick up the oryxes, which had been shipped to New Jersey. The four consisted of two males and two females, Edith from Aden, and Caroline, contributed by the London Zoo. Another female, still unnamed, will arrive...
Died. Frederick Louis Maytag II, 51, president since 1940 of the $107 million-a-year Maytag Co., U.S. producer of laundry machines, the founder's forthright flying and skindiving grandson, who at 29 inherited a feudal Midwestern firm, modernized and expanded it tenfold by profit-sharing management and honest craftsmanship that shunned built-in obsolescence; of cancer; in Newton, Iowa...