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...news with a cheer. An M.P. from Northern Ireland thanked the Prime Minister "for this wonderful news." Wilson replied cautiously, "I would not myself call it wonderful news. I think it is a satisfactory end to an unhappy chapter." The British mood was well expressed by the Daily Telegraph: "However heinous his guilt may still be thought, he paid for it in full: it is time to close the account...
...look and tailored line. Let others raise hems to the heavens; for Molyneux, knee-length skirts are no less "absolutely vulgar" today than in 1928, when he first said so. The new Molyneux collection was unabashedly oldfashioned, and it drew both snippish sniffs ("Typically British," deplored the London Daily Telegraph) and soulful sighs ("The style and taste are still there," cooed the Daily Mail...
Shenton earned A.B. and M.B.A. degrees at Stanford, and received a ph.D. in History at Harvard. Shenton worked for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. and taught at M.I.T...
...most part solidly grounded on the steady rise in the earning power of big corporations. Pre-tax corporate profits are now running some $13 billion a year above the level of 1961, when the business upturn began-a gain of nearly 30%. A few weeks ago, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. reported profits for 1964 of $1,700,967,000-an alltime record for U.S. corporations. But last week General Motors, despite a six-week strike last year, surpassed that with its report of a $1,735,000,000 profit, an increase of 9% over...
Died. William Buckingham, 62, research engineer for Western Union Telegraph Co., who in 1961 developed the U.S. Nuclear Bomb Warning System, which is installed in 99 target areas and will, through supersensitive photoelectric devices, instantly pick up the first heat and light waves from a nuclear explosion, thus alerting military commanders moments before it and all other communication systems are knocked out; of cancer; in Southampton...