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...anyone doubted that Lady Bird Johnson was in dead earnest about her beautification program, he had only to watch her pace. Having presided over three White House conferences on the subject, toured the District of Columbia to plant flowers, participated in an anti-litter campaign called Potomac Pickup Day and made two trips outside of Washington-all since February-she might have taken a breather from beauty for a while. Not Lady Bird. She not only visited two more cities last week-planting trees, condemning litter and extolling beauty-but plans to talk beauty to a meeting of the Associated...
...World Book Encyclopedia, which had concentrated on quantity of sales, had turned out to be so profitable-$130 million sales this year-that Field had the financial resources for expansion in several directions. On the Chicago River, he built a $21 million modern newspaper plant that now prints both the Field papers. He joined with the New York Herald Tribune in a news syndicate that served 1,800 papers and included such big names as Cartoonist Bill Mauldin and Columnist Ann Landers. He was ready to go on the air this January with his first television station...
Polaroid subcontracts most of its camera manufacturing-U.S. Time Corp makes most Polaroids, Bell & Howell will produce the Swinger in the U.S.-but it is so deeply committed to the film business that it plans to erect a nine-building complex of film plants over the next ten years. Land is also developing a film that will produce instant color transparencies, and negotiating with Tex Thornton's Litton Industries to enter jointly the office-copier business. Polaroid recently opened a film plant in The Netherlands, this fall will open another in Scotland; later this year, U.S. Time will...
...upstart company that has successfully applied the new technology to this cordwood is four-year-old Iowa Beef Packers of Denison, Iowa Already highly automated, Iowa Beef in November will open a new plant in Dakota City, Neb., that will apply a complete assembly line to beef cattle The carcass will be put on a moving assembly line the minute the animal is slaughtered. In quick operations, the hide will be yanked off, the entrails and carcass dropped on separate conveyor belts and every part claimed by different workers along the line. Such imaginative techniques already in use have given...
Looking for a mica miner in the Malagasy Republic? Need to find a chemical plant in Czechoslovakia? Like to buy a typewriter in Thailand? Anyone can find these three-and 2,900 other categories of business in 136 countries-by thumbing through a new kind of directory called the International Yellow Pages. Conceived by Robert A. Nellson, 50, a Rochester, N.Y., advertising executive, International Yellow Pages has gone through two editions since it was first published in 1963. A new and bigger third edition is now being prepared; it will contain 540,000 listings (including country, town, street address...