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Along the way, Welch and Partner Marti-Ibáñez formed Medical Encyclopedia Inc., with themselves and their wives as sole owners. They made a go of it, with a liberal assist from the U.S. Each year for five years, the Antibiotics Division helped sponsor a symposium on antibiotics. The technical reports presented, often by experts from Government lab oratories and great universities, were published in an Antibiotics Annual for the profit of Medical Encyclopedia Inc. That netted Welch an extra...
...over Southeast Asia, an emblem with the gold initials SB on a dark-blue shield is as familiar as the U.S. dollar sign. It stands for the Shaw Brothers, sole owners of the largest show-business empire in Asia. Their chain of 120 moviehouses and ten amusement parks in a half-dozen countries draws tattooed headhunter warriors in Borneo, svelte Chinese beauties in Hong Kong, betel-chewing peasants in Cambodia, wisp-bearded mandarins in Viet Nam, combative Sikhs in Singapore. No one knows better than the SBs how to turn a profit from this varied audience. At a recent Singapore...
...left in no doubt by me that his ultimatum would never be acceptable to the U.S. Mr. Khrushchev brushed aside all arguments of reason . . . The only conclusion that can be drawn from his behavior this morning was that he came all the way from Moscow to Paris with the sole intention of sabotaging this meeting, on which so much of the hopes of the world have rested...
...Motive. Subjective or not, the Ivy League schools were far from easy on themselves in last week's choices. Using a typical method, Columbia's Dean of Undergraduate Admissions David Dudley lined up 3,000 applications for 670 places. His staff first ranked each boy on the sole basis of two aptitude scores. Some were clearly admissible on this basis, some not. The problem: 800 middle-group applicants for 400 places. From then on, intangibles were vital. The chief gauge: "Finding the kid who looks stronger on incentive, who has a real motive." Recalls Dudley: "We moved around...
KRUPP INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE, decentralized after World War II, was reunited with merger of Krupp's coal, steel and iron-ore divisions into Rheinhausen Coal & Steel. Sole shareholder: Alfried Krupp...