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...Betty Sheaffer has never been able to go to school because she suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, an uncommon disorder in which the bones are so fragile that they snap under the slightest strain. She has had about 100 fractures (her parents have lost count), at least two simply from being startled. Last week Betty Sheaffer, 22, graduated from Stowe Township High School, near Pittsburgh, after 13 years of home instruction. Her chosen career : typist, working at home...
...Okayed the resignations of 1) Chrysler Corp. Board Chairman K. T. (for Kaufman Thuma) Keller, director since 1950 of the Defense Department's Guided Missiles Office, 2) Craig R. Sheaffer, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Sheaffer, Iowa pen manufacturer, had been on the way out ever since his attempt to get Allen V. Astin fired from his post as Bureau of Standards director detonated the great battery-additive debate (TIME, April...
...describe the "dip-free" Sheaffer Snorkel pens in South Africa, Grant had to find a substitute for dip (doop), which means "baptize" in Afrikaans...
Short Answer. Recently, sales of the Sheaffer Pen Co., spurred by the new Snorkel pen, have been closing the gap on Parker. To help counter the threat, Parker is trying to diversify its pen line too. Three years ago, it brought out the Parker "21," small brother of its alltime bestseller. This fall Parker introduced two new models priced between the "21" and the "51." Parker also marketed (under French license) the first U.S.-made butane-gas cigarette lighter, the Flaminaire, is now tinkering with another...
...rough going for a while. Parker Pen Co. pushed him out of first place, then Eversharp with its ballpoint eclipsed them both. But Sheaffer brought out its own cheap ballpoint ($1.50) and forged again into first place. Craig Sheaffer expects to stay there, confident that his workers will match the higher bonus with lower costs and higher productivity...