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Some 30 people scattered through the stands at Soldiers Field yesterday watched Dick Garibaldi toy with the Springfield offense while Crimson batsmen teed off on the Gymnasts' hurlers. The result was an easy 8-0 win for Harvard...
...nuclear scientists against arming West German forces with atomic weapons. To this spirit of dissent, Göttingen adds West Germany's best mathematics institute, its biggest university library and largest agricultural faculty. So many Afro-Asian students now go there that the town's toy shops stock Negro dolls...
...eight technical factories employing 9,360 people. Philip Rosenthal is planning to build a new $4,000,000 plant in Selb, but intends to keep his office in a converted factory building, where he can maintain its rumpus-room atmosphere and his collection of rejected porcelain models and toy monkeys. Intense and charming, Philip dresses like a tattered English country squire, lives in a manor house whose living room has a copper floor and a ceiling made of floor boards. He runs two miles home to lunch to keep in shape for mountain climbing. Says one baffled Rosenthal executive...
...competitors insist that it is not even a part of Japan's auto industry, and one Japanese automaker sneers that it is "in the toy business." Some toy. Hiroshima's thriving Toyo Kogyo Co. Ltd. outproduced all other Japanese automakers last year and had the industry's fattest profit margin on sales of $231,500,000. This month it turned out its millionth vehicle...
When Roy Marcus Cohn at 32 bought control of Lionel Corp. in 1959, he was something like a little boy with a big toy. He switched the profitless model-train maker into everything from electronics to parachutes, brought in former Army Missile Chief John B. Medaris as president. Lionel turned into the black in 1960, but then some of Cohn's costly schemes began to sour. The company lost $2,500,000 in 1961, another $4,000,000 in 1962; Cohn shucked off several of the new subsidiaries and eased out General Medaris. Last week the word went...