Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events of overriding importance. Even so, some form of agreement will have to be reached, if only to settle quarrels that are already looming-over what fees Comsat can collect, what programs it should broadcast, who should own the ground stations that will relay them, and whether Comsat should retain its monopoly status...
...Viet Nam. The rest have been rotated Stateside, many to instructors' billets at the Air Cav home base in Fort Benning, Ga., where their combat expertise is well applied. The new First Team is still 70% "regular Army"-career soldiers rather than draftees-and thus man ages to retain a solid base of experience among junior officers and sergeants. Nearly 100 Air Cavalrymen re-enlist or extend their duty in Viet Nam each month-a credit to the division's high morale...
...ALUMINUM. The Common Market is trying to retain its present 9% tariff on primary aluminum, but has offered to admit a token quota of 100,000 tons at a lower rate of 5%. The U.S., which levies 51% on aluminum, and other countries want the Common Market to reduce its basic rate, would prefer to make aluminum duty-free everywhere...
...Greying, distinguished Norman Norell, 66, is today the dean of U.S. designers. As an apprentice, he designed costumes for Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. Today his Manhattan collections still retain much of the sleek, stark, flamboyant yet functional modernity that was characteristic of the late 1920s and early 1930s-and remain equally timely in the 1960s. Norell pioneered culottes and fitted jackets with pleated skirts several seasons ago, showed the now universal pants suit in 1964. His most famous dress is undoubtedly the basic, columnar, $3,000 sequined full-length sheath that he has been making, with minor variations, since...
Rolls expects to retain all of Bristol Siddeley's 30,000 workers. Only one important personnel change is contemplated under the merger. Sir James Denning Pearson, 58, the chief executive officer of Rolls-Royce, has long doubled in brass as the company's top engineer. Now he will hold one position: chief executive of the merged company...