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...first glance it seems a monument to absent-mindedness-a potpourri of unrelated products from bread-bagging machines to rocket launchers, all stuffed improbably under the wing of one of the nation's most anonymous corporate giants. But FMC Corp. of San Jose, Calif., is no happenstance hodgepodge. It is a carefully laid industrial mosaic that since 1950 has run up an enviable record of twelve consecutive yearly increases in both sales and profits. Last year sales of FMC's 14 divisions soared to $415 million; in the first half of this year they climbed another...
Loud & Clear. Yet perhaps never before had a historic event been introduced with such a peculiar potpourri of show business, mundane shop talk and excited chatter. A.T. & T. Chairman Frederick Kappel bounced his voice off the satellite to send greetings by phone to Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who eagerly took the call in Washington. The first picture to be beamed from the earth station in Maine was a TV camera's view of the American flag waving near the ground tracking facilities, while a sound track carried The Star-Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful. Scientists had expected Telstar...
...think not. A man who wants to find humor in our world's imperfections had best allow himself a few paradoxes. Sunday's Feiffer potpourri was a thoughtful and superbly funny offering. If the author can be lured back to Sanders Theatre, an encore is in order...
Kennedy asked for a potpourri of programs and powers that would doubtless carry a high price tag. But at the same time he stressed that his real purpose was to increase opportunities for individual Americans rather than build up the state at their expense. "The state is the servant of the citizen and not its master," he said, and he pledged to "give the individual the opportunity to realize his own highest possibilities." He asked for job training for private, not Government jobs, for a spur, not to Government or public works but to private industry through tax credits...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A potpourri called "A Trip to Christmas," narrated by Jane Wyatt and starring the Lennon Sisters, Violette Verdy and Edward Villella of the New York City Ballet, and the Schola Cantorum. Color...