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...effect a Sunday-school session is tricked out with puppets, magicians, quick-sketch artists and ventriloquists. The moppets' roars of approval bring the adults and teen-agers swarming around in a crowd that averages 500. After about 45 minutes the three-man team piles into its motor van and speeds off to another beach...
...auto industry. Ford Motor Co.'s earnings dropped slightly, to $2.04 per share from $2.05, and Henry Ford II, chairman and president, said that this year's first quarter will be lower than last year's. For the year. Ford earned $7.80 per share v. $8.24. American Motors reported that its first fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31 saw a profit drop to 56? per share from 68? because of a cost squeeze, even though sales were...
This would not be the first building on stilts in Harvard Square. The first is the Treadway Motor House at the opposite end of the square, which is now adding another story after only ten months of operation. Its success is no doubt due to the occupants' peace of mind at being protected from the snakes which infest the area...
...they awaited a fateful meeting of Trans World Airlines' board of directors in Manhattan last week, former Ford Motor Chairman Ernest Breech and former U.S. Steel Chairman Irving S. Olds exuded confidence. Next day, Breech and five new directors were to be elected to TWA's board. This would pave the way for the election of Breech as TWA's new chairman and the naming of a president for the line, which has been without a captain since Charles Thomas resigned some six months ago. Best of all, after months of wrangling, they seemed to have bested...
...Richard Cardinal Cushing delivered his long invocation, smoke began wafting from the lectern. On and on the cardinal prayed-upward and upward poured the smoke. When Cardinal Cushing finished, Dick Nixon and several other volunteer firemen rushed to the lectern. The fire was located in a short-circuited electric motor that powered the lectern; the plug was pulled and the smoke drifted away...