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Dividing his crowded days among business, education and culture. Carter serves as a director of Pacific TelePhone & Telegraph, Northrop, Southern California Edison, United-California Bank and Western Bancorporation, as a trustee of the Brookings Institution and Occidental College and as a director of the Stanford Research Institute. Though his rimless glasses and whisper-quiet voice give him the air of a professor (he once declined an offer from the Harvard Business School to become one), Carter is still a shrewd salesman. When he was asked to raise 12 million to help build the Los Angeles Art Museum, he persuaded...
Menk got into railroading as a telegraph messenger when he was 19, be came president of the Frisco in 1962. By cutting back passenger service and automating freight yards, he raised earnings to an eight-year high of $7,123,356 last year - a performance that won him the attention of Burlington directors. In moving to the larger Burlington (8,546 miles of track v. the Frisco's 5,054), Menk measurably increases his challenge. Though the road's freight and passenger revenues rose last year, income fell $1,012,306 to $20.3 million, is down another...
Developed by International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., Videx is essentially an adaptation of the "slow-scan" process used in closed-circuit television and to send television pictures from space...
...size of a Dictaphone, they can be rented from American Telephone & Telegraph and other phone companies for about $25 monthly or be purchased outright from Robosonics Inc., the largest-selling private manufacturer, and R.S.V.P., its West Coast rival, for about $400 and up, depending on the number of frills. Robosonics' latest is a $700 version which will take up to six hours of messages, aimed at firms like meat wholesalers, who can thus collect overnight orders. R.S.V.P. is bringing out a model which allows the owner to call in and change his own recorded message. Tentative price...
...sculptures for $1,200 apiece; another offers homemade relishes and jams, chi na eggs, wooden jigsaw puzzles and stuffed animals. Both are florists. The wide variety of their merchandise illustrates how the nation's 22,000 retail florists are branching out. Last week the 11,600-member Florist Telegraph Delivery Association (which is changing its name to Florist Transworld Delivery to give itself a more international image) voted at its convention in San Francisco to permit its members to sell by wire just about anything they want...