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...Procter & Gamble Company...
...start of each of the past three years, Mahoney predicted that the earnings of the widely diversified food, drink and publishing company would increase by at least 15%. He has hit the mark every time. Now, bent on building N.S.I, into a consumer-products giant that would equal Procter & Gamble and Unilever, Mahoney has begun a major drive for acquisitions...
Died. Neil H. McElroy, 68, Defense Secretary during the second Eisenhower Administration; of cancer; in Cincinnati. McElroy was president of Procter & Gamble when Eisenhower chose him for the Pentagon in 1957. During his tenure the U.S. accelerated its space and missile programs. It was McElroy who first predicted a "missile gap." Ironically, the Democrats seized the issue in the 1960 election, but after taking office had to admit that the gap was nonexistent...
...ingredient Sooth-X, and they got into the ad by decisively defeating little airplanes, tigers, rocket ships and genies in consumer testing reports. Brice's goal is to replace Gibbs & Wilson's list of luxury clients with packaged-goods industry giants. "Why, a friend of mine at Procter & Gamble told me I was taking over a zoo," he complains, shortly thereafter locking recalcitrant animals like Jim Bower out of their comfortable cages...
...Straus Procter Brad Howe credited athletic secretary Ed Bujalski for inspirational leadership. "We had been finishing second or third in almost every event in the winter," Howe said. "But the guys were really motivated after Ed went out and won his weight class in the boxing tournament...