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Elgin hopes that the spring will help it recapture a big chunk of the $400,000,000-a-year U.S. watch business from the fiercely competitive Swiss. Under President Thomas Albert Potter, 63, Elgin has come a long way since he left Quaker Oats Co. in 1932 to take over the depression-sick company. By 1940 Elgin was the biggest U.S. watch company. But during the war, the three big U.S. jeweled watchmakers (the other two: Hamilton, Waltham) switched to war work. With them out of the business, the Swiss boosted their U.S. sales almost 300% to about...
Saul Mariaschin, with 22 points, and George Hauptfuhrer, with 18, more than matched the efforts of talented "Chink" Crossin, the Quaker captain, who also totalled 18 points. Aside from Crossin, the visitors had little to offer...
Wolves' World. In 1683 a group of Dutch-descended Mennonites came to Quaker William Penn's new colony in America and settled at Germantown. For a time, they found tolerance and peace. By 1776 the Pennsylvania Mennonites numbered nearly 7,500; today there are approximately 200,000 on the North American continent. They too, "plain people" as they call themselves, have not escaped the disease of sectarianism and schism. U.S. Mennonites are currently divided into 16 groups, including the black-clothed, buttonless, bearded Amish of southeastern Pennsylvania. Some of them still practice such ancient customs as the "holy...
...pretty, 19-year-old Nancy Wills of Bristol, Pa., this sort of routine has become almost second nature. So it has to the eleven other U.S. girls of the Friends Service Unit at Cuautla, Mexico. The unit is one of two such Quaker-run projects in Mexico; the other, for boys, is at Yautepec. At its annual meeting in Philadelphia last week, the American Friends Service Committee, in response to invitations from local Mexican officials, approved plans to carry on its practice of augmenting year-round units with at least five summer groups...
...Payoff. The twelve girls of the Cuautla Service Unit sign up for six to eight months, pay $35 a month for their board. They live in an unused patio of a public school under the easygoing supervision of the project's Quaker directors, Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Binford. Each morning, after a 20-minute period of Quakerly meditation, the group separates for its various duties - helping the Mexican nurses at the clinic, accompanying them on their rounds, supervising playground activities in the school...