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...space denizens have learned to land softly on the moon, they can do the same on Mars, studying or even fighting off any kind of life that exists there. That life may be based on unfamiliar chemistry, perhaps using silicon in place of carbon and some other solvent in place of water. After Mars, comes Jupiter, the monster planet that seems to be bursting with unexplained commotion...
...disastrous for Studebaker. But in the past 18 months, Egbert has acquired for Studebaker five profitable new subsidiaries, ranging from a home-appliance maker to a nonscheduled airline. With 47% of its sales now outside the auto business, Egbert is counting on the new divisions to keep the company solvent until he can turn the automaking division around...
...involved (Mexico, Bermuda, Puerto Rico), final say in the Eastern-American merger rests not with the CAB but with the White House. In the end, the decision will turn on whether President Kennedy thinks it is more important to keep the airline industry hotly competitive or to keep it solvent...
...name of Lord Duveen will always be associated with the names of Mellon and Morgan and Kress, and today it is still true that a Duveen customer should be something more than merely solvent. Prices range from $850 for an illuminated manuscript page from a 15th century book to $500,000 for a Giorgione. But buying an old master is not a prerequisite for enjoying the treasures Lord Duveen stashed away during his incredible career. On a Saturday the gallery is usually jammed with art lovers of every age and income, perhaps dropping in to see a small but appealing...
...unlikely that such injections of relatively young blood will materially change an operation that has worked well since E. W. Scripps established the Penny Press (later the Cleveland Press) on a borrowed $10,000 in 1878. Good and bad, fat and lean, solvent and insolvent, the Scripps-Howard newspapers are at the very least elastic. Unencumbered by the kind of tyrannous direction with which the late William Randolph Hearst suffocated initiative in his press empire, they remain supple enough to move with the times. And the times have undoubtedly changed vastly since the days of E. W. Scripps. "Newspapers...