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MISSILE COMPETITION for Air Force Titan's inertial-guidance systems was won by G.M.'s AC Spark Plug Division over American Bosch Arma Corp. Contract's worth: about $300 million in next few years...
Last week Ed Ragsdale announced his retirement. G.M. handed his job to Edward Dumas Rollert, 47, boss of its Harrison Radiator Division at Lockport, N.Y. Like Ragsdale, Engineer Rollert moved up via manufacturing instead of sales. He joined G.M. out of Purdue ('33), rose in the AC Spark Plug Division as metallurgist, chief tool-and-die designer, assistant works manager. During the Korean war he managed the Kansas City, Kans., Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac plant, made his mark by converting it into G.M.'s first dual-purpose plant, turning out cars and F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighters...
Corporations happily supply information to security analysts and customers' men, whose firms turn out some 50,000 market letters annually. Public-relations firms are hired to plug a firm to the public. Their performances are often judged on how high the publicity pushes the stock...
...addition, he pointed out, the plug would halt the emigration of the 12,000 to 15,000 East Germans each month to the West through Berlin...
Meanwhile, moderator Henry Kucera, assistant professor of Russian, got in a plug for the faculty-sponsored "Discussions '59," of which this was an unintended enlargement. Originally, the meeting was to be an informal lounge chat. When it became a public forum, John J. McLaughry, appointed head football coach only weeks ago, decided that the issue had lost its original humor and announced that he would be out of town tonight...