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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steel stockpiling as a hedge against a possible steel strike in August. While the outlook for the year as a whole is by no means so dismal-Washington has all but abandoned hope of reaching President Johnson's goal of fattening the U.S. trade account by $500 million in 1968. Says a top Commerce Department official: "We'll be lucky if we can hold the '67 surplus...
...Congress, 16 industrial countries* last week offered some extraordinary help. They volunteered to speed up a portion of their scheduled Kennedy Round tariff cuts while allowing the U.S. to delay its own cuts. This tariff advantage would give the U.S. trade balance a lift through 1969 estimated at $300 million...
...planes packed with 20 tons of hair curlers took off from Copenhagen. In seven weeks last spring, 350,000 heat-retaining Carmen Curler sets were airlifted to New York on rush order from the U.S. beauty firm, Clairol. Labeled "Carmen" or "Kindness" and marketed by Clairol, nearly a million of the Danish-made curlers have already been snatched up by American women, for prices ranging from $13 to $40 a set. An additional 500,000 were sold in more than a score of other countries...
Responsible for most, though by no means all, of the eye-catching campaigns is Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, 61, the freewheeling chairman of Publicis, France's largest private ad agency (billings: $43 million). Bleustein-Blanchet founded Publicis in 1927, gradually expanded the business by piloting his own plane around the country in search of contracts. After World War II, during which he flew for the Free French, he had to rebuild Publicis almost from scratch. In the process, he picked up such major accounts as Shell, Colgate-Palmolive and Renault. He also gave the agency a profitable sideline by opening...
...jets, the Islander is in remarkable demand. Since the first production model appeared barely 18 months ago, 16 air-taxi companies have put the plane into service from Scotland's Orkney Islands to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. More than 200, worth a total of $15 million, are now on order, and production is sold out well into 1969. With 800 workers straining to increase the Islander's one-a-week rate, Britten-Norman Co-Founder Desmond Norman's main concern is to find "ways to build them fast enough...