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...throughout much of the South. They were, in fact, hunting for trouble-and last week in Alabama they found more of it than they wanted. For in Alabama, mobs were permitted to run free and wild by top state and local officials who, from Alabama's Governor John Patterson on down, abdicated their duties of maintaining law and order. The result by week's end was a brutal, bloody outbreak of violence that brought on the gravest federal-state conflict since Little Rock...
Grow or Die. AMF's expansion is the work of slow-spoken, low-pressured Chairman Morehead Patterson, 64, who took over the company in 1943 from his father Rufus L. Patterson, inventor of the first automated tobacco machine. After World War II, Morehead Patterson decided that the company had to grow or die. Searching for new products, he turned up a crude prototype of an automatic bowling-pm setter. To get the necessary cash to develop the intricate gadget, Patterson swapped off AMF stock to acquire eight small companies with fast-selling products. The Pinspotter, perfected...
...companies suffered. International Business Machines' first-quarter profit set a record ($2.67 per share) for the period, a 39% gain over the year-ago period. Both Revlon and the Borden Co. also had record first-quarter earnings. American Machine & Foundry's Chairman Morehead Patterson predicted, as quarterly earnings rose to 93? a share v. 87? a year ago, that 1961 would be "a very satisfactory year...
...already handed two city officials-Police Commissioner L. (for Lester) B. Sullivan and Mayor Earl D. James-all they asked for: $500,000 each. Remaining to be tried, on identical evidence, are the suits of Montgomery Public Works Commissioner Frank Parks (asking $500,000) and Alabama Governor John M. Patterson ($1,000,000). Belatedly deciding that the ad had injured him too, former Montgomery Police Commissioner Clyde C. Sellers last week brought additional suit...
...Britain's amiable Henry Cooper, 26, whose craggy face cuts at an angry glance, put himself in line for a shot at Champion Floyd Patterson by beating Welshman Joe Erskine in five bloody rounds...