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...along their Danang perimeter. By the end of this year, a steel-mesh net platform that can be laid by helicopters across jungle treetops will be in use by choppers as a do-it-yourself landing pad; the disgorged troops shinny down through the branches on a metal and nylon ladder...
...German chemist and 1953 Nobel prizewinner, who fathered the age of plastics with his 1922 theory that large organic molecules derive their individual properties from orderly chainlike structures, hundreds of atoms long, thus making it possible for scientists to reproduce the structures synthetically, and develop such wonders as nylon (for silk) and Orion (for wool); of a stroke; in Freiburg, Germany...
...Schulte, 40, a leader among the restless breed of West German entrepreneurs who have cut consumer costs by introducing modern production and merchandising methods. One of the first things he did when he took over his father's struggling knitting mill in 1956 was to begin selling seamless nylon stockings in supermarkets for 750 a pair−half the standard price. Today, every other pair of women's hosiery sold in West Germany is made by his firm, Schulte & Dieckhoff, whose sales have increased twentyfold in the past nine years, to $90 million...
Certain Invasion. After pulling up his stocking sales, bull-necked (collar size: 18 plus) Schulte built a shirt factory in Italy, where labor costs are lower, supplied it with nylon material from his German mills. Last year he began sending tens of thousands of men's dress shirts to West German shops at prices ranging from $1.50 to $2, less than half the price that other shirtmakers asked. In the resulting price war, retail shirt prices fell as low as $1 and dozens of smaller competitors went out of business. Schulte has collared a quarter of West Germany...
Died. Sir John Hanbury-Williams, 73, longtime (1946-62) chairman of Courtaulds, Ltd., Britain's largest manufacturer of synthetic fibers (sales: $840 million), who as managing director in the 1930s led the firm into the production of nylon and cellophane, saw it fall on hard times in the 1950s with stiffer competition and declining sales, barely staved off a takeover bid by Britain's giant Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., in his last year as chairman; of cancer; in London...