Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatic as that of Xerox. Founded in 1906 as the Haloid Co., a maker of photographic papers, the firm prospered quietly until the early '40s, when noisy court battles erupted among its twelve founding partners-including Wilson's father, who eventually won control. When his turn to take over the family fiefdom came in 1946, Joe Wilson, then 36, found it faltering. Searching for profitable new business, he seized on a little-known copying process called "xerography," and in eight years raised some $87.6 million in loans and stock issues to finance research. Once the process-which...
...left the Xerox executive committee chairmanship to become U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of the American States, made sure that the techniques could not be copied for some time. A thicket of more than 500 patents surrounds the basic xerography process. Meanwhile, the company is making machines that turn out copies-and therefore revenues -at ever faster rates. The 914 model turns out 420 pages per hour. Model 2400, launched 21 years ago, makes 2,400 pages of copy per hour. After a faltering start because prices were too high, new machines have been in great demand, and last year...
...will be Hunt's present chairman-tough, acquisition-minded William E. McKenna, 48, whom Simon lured from Litton Industries last year. Under McKenna, as president, will be David J. Mahoney Jr., 45, a onetime Colgate-Palmolive marketing whiz who was hand-picked by Simon 18 months ago to turn ailing Canada Dry around, and did. Third member of the triumvirate will be Hunt President Harold M. Williams, 40, who joined Hunt 13 years ago as a tax lawyer. He will take over Simon's job as chairman of the finance committee...
Donald Barthelme's game is best described as surrealist anthropology or perhaps social-science fiction. Literature today is overshadowed by audio-visual art forms that threaten to turn into total pinball-machine environments. But Barthelme, 37, continues to demonstrate that language can be a mixed-media production all by itself. He translates the chipped teacups, navel lint, prattle and random static of life into even rows of words that twitter, bong, flash and glow signals of exquisite distress...
...Boston this year. The work of nouvelle-vague director Claude Charbol (Les Cousins), The Champagne Murders unfolds web-like with the violent surrealism of a nightmare. A decadent party suddenly is no longer what it has been, the guests have become a process-screen behind Anthony Perkins, who in turn finds himself virtually assaulted by a grotesque woman who claims she knew him as a gigolo on the Riviera; the objective reality of the camera has shifted imperceptibly to the subjective perception of an unstable mind. Always eccentric, Chabrol's characters toy dangerously with the lives of their friends...