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...from its stockholders to become just plain Monsanto Co. Fairbanks Whitney, hoping to get an image with a bang from its gunmaking subsidiary, plans to rename itself Colt Industries. Riddle-Airlines, whose name has long been just that to many people, is about to switch to Airlift International Inc. Olin Mathieson is asking customers to "please, call us by our first name," and the onetime General Shoe Co. is nailing down its new name with a "Do You Know Genesco?" advertising campaign...
...that yielded 46 bu. of corn in the 1950s is now good for 64 bu. To demonstrate their axiom that $1 worth of fertilizer adds $3 in crop value, salesmen like to plant test plots along heavily trafficked highways in farm areas. Says Marketing Director J. P. Ekberg of Olin Mathieson, which operates the world's biggest fertilizer plant just outside Houston: "When the corn is twice as high as the corn growing next to it by the Fourth of July, people can easily see what a difference fertilizer makes...
...uncommitted members of the U.S. Senate fell into line for ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty-Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas, North Carolina Democrats Everett Jordan and Sam Ervin, Nevada Democrat Alan Bible, Iowa Republican Jack Miller, Colorado Republican Peter Dominick, Nebraska Republican Roman Hruska and South Carolina Democrat Olin Johnston...
...margin of the 50-34 victory of the Youth Employment Bill that impressed the proposal's backers, but the support the measure won from Southern Senators; Olin Johnston (D-S.C.), George Smathers (D-Fla.), Russell Long (D-La.), Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), all voted for the bill...
...winning at the polls as well as in the market place. In South Carolina, moderates with labor and Negro backing managed to elect Donald Russell to the governor's office and subsequently succeeded in efforts to integrate a previously all-white university. At the same time they re-elected Olin Johnson to the Senate over concentrated conservative-segregationist opposition in both the Democratic primary and the general election...