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...credit U.S. merg er makers with the invention of cor porate conglomerates - companies that grow by garnering others in unrelated fields. Not Britain's Leonard J. Matchan, 55, president and chairman of London-based Cope Allman Interna tional Ltd., who was in New York City last week to plug a venture...
...anchor of the defense is the middle guard. His assignment is to plug the gaps and lend tackling support from one end of the line to the other. To evaluate the play of Stan Greenidge, the Crimson's All-Ivy middle guard, you wouldn't count the number of times he throws a quarterback for a loss. Those occasions are freaks: when Harvard catches the offense off guard with a defense switch or when the Crimson finds itself in a position where it needs to gamble. Rather, watch Greenidge hold his position against a single blocker...
...contributed 79 tackles, also handled the punting, was voted to three All-America teams. This year Parseghian has shifted him to end, where his talents can be put to better use harassing enemy passers and running down fleet halfbacks. "At tackle," explains Hardy, "all I had to do was plug a hole. If I made a mistake, only God saw me. Now if I make a mistake, the whole stadium sees...
...years to complete, at a cost of $1 billion a year. The Army, which will have operational responsibility for the system, makes no apologies for the amount of time involved. "Some of the people on the Hill think that all you have to do with a missile site is plug in for water and electricity as you do at a trailer park," said one officer. The fact is, said another, that "the ABM requires a more complicated system than that needed to land a man on the moon...
Using 20-second television teasers to pique interest in its brand-new Javelin specialty car, American Motors Corp. last week launched a nationwide advertising campaign designed to put the company on the road to recovery. To plug its 1968 models, the automaker is relying on 18-month-old Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc., which was already Madison Avenue's hottest new ad agency (other clients: Braniff airlines, Benson & Hedges 100s) when it picked up A.M.C.'s $12 million account last June. The full measure of the agency's upstart audacity will become evident by the time its client...