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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change in selective service policy," according to Sargent Kennedy, Registrar. The Memorial Hall deferment clinic "has been set up merely as a convenience to students so they will not get lost in the Holyoke Center elevators on the way to the Registrar's office if they deside to seek a deferment," Kennedy said. "Any student who wants the form sent gets it stamped and sent; if the student doesn't want it sent we don't send it," he added...
Their disadvantage with customers is an equally sticky problem. Small manufacturers are often wholly dependent on single big customers, such as auto or aerospace companies, which are increasingly making for themselves the parts that they formerly bought outside. When corporate Lilliputians seek other customers, they come up against giants that get tougher as they grow bigger. In the past year, the 500 largest companies in FORTUNE'S annual listing raised their share of all U.S. industrial sales from 56¼% to 56½%-and that fractional gain widened the gap between them and small manufacturers by $1 billion...
...Keep Up? Some small manufacturers seek to survive and prosper by diversifying. In Detroit, United Platers has begun to retail its own line of chrome-plated auto wheels, and hopes for a free lift on advertising from Buick, which will offer similar wheels (made by United) as optional gear on its '64 models. Other firms are narrowing their lines, with the intent of making fewer products better than anyone else. Beau-tee-Fit Co. of Los Angeles retrenched from manufacturing a full line of brassieres to only top-quality models, lately has begun to specialize in nursing bras. Detroit...
...life in China is more than crop reports, trade statistics and propaganda analysis. We seek also the vivid eyewitness detail. Here are some of the people interviewed for this week's story...
...that end, she appointed two committees: one, headed by Antiques Expert Henry F. du Pont, to assemble period furniture, and the other, headed by New York Painter and Lecturer James W. Fosburgh, to seek out paintings and sculptures...