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Atlanta's Scripto, Inc. last week put a new pencil on the market that looks like a lead pencil but writes like a ball-point pen. The writing agent is a capsule of liquid graphite which can be erased, although not as quickly or cleanly as lead. Price: 49?; refill capsules...
With his new pencil, Scripto President James Vinson Carmichael got the jump on the Parker Pen Co., which ballyhooed its own graphite pencil last month but will take "about 90 days" before beginning distribution...
...governor against Herman E. Talmadge, and was beaten under the state's county unit system, although he won the popular vote. After that, he joined Scripto as assistant to the president. A year later he became president, started the company expanding rapidly with ball-point pens, became the second biggest ball-point pen maker (behind Los Angeles' Paper-Mate) and the biggest mechanical pen and pencil maker...
...power project, Brazil's witty President Café Filho (TIME, Dec. 6) stopped off for a look at a cocoa plantation and suddenly found himself hotfooting it across a field just a few horn's-breadths ahead of a bull that had escaped from a pen. No matador, Café Filho, with aides puffing along in his wake, was the first to make it to the safety of a nearby hut. The runner-up was his military adviser, General Juarez Távora. After the snorting bull was lassoed, Sprinter Café Filho. still gasping for breath, grinned...
Swift & Co., however, cares little about putting on a show front or catering to executive whims. It has its executive vice presidents sitting out in the center of a huge bull pen where they can look right across the desks at their assistants. At Philadelphia's Smith Kline & French Laboratories, the chairman of the board, department heads and general employees all look at the same green-painted walls, rugless floors and utilitarian furniture...