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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fast-growing market for fiber-tipped pens, now dominated by Japanese imports, Scripto has just introduced a Dacron-tipped version called Scriptip, which it hopes will out strip its competitors by providing a greater ink supply and a finer, longer-lasting nib at a lower price (39? v. 49? for most others...
industry is responding with little com plaint and a good deal of action. Today, 94% of the 1,726 plants that discharge wastes into the Ohio River basin meet the requirements set by the Ohio River Valley Sanitation Commission (v. only 75% five years ago). At its Houston refinery, Shell Oil now purifies its used water so thoroughly that fish swim in a pond at the end of the process. Ford Motor Co. announced last month that it will spend $1,000,000 to scrub liquid wastes flowing into the Rouge River from its Dearborn steel plant. Four major steel...
...termed the Court's decision in Baker v. Carr, the first reapportionment case, "as explicit an inquiry into the court's functions as in any case that I've read...
Mysterious Circle. Hawkins believes that Stonehenge astronomy was so advanced that its experts had apparently noted a phenomenon undetected even by modern astronomers: eclipses of the moon occur in cycles of 56 years. Hawkins, who inadvertent'v rediscovered the cycle after running Stonehenge eclipse data throuah a computer, immediately associated it with a mysterious circle of 56 "Aubrey" holes that ring the massive arches. He concluded that the holes formed a primitive eclipse computer. By placing a stone in each of six appropriate holes and moving them at appropriate times one hole around the circle, he decided, the Stonehenge...
Though City Products' $393 million in sales last year dwarfed Household Finance's $201 million in revenues, its profits were a mere $8,639,000 v. H.F.C.'s record $35,485,000. Why, then, did the loan firm want City Products? Household's bluff, $168,704-a-year president, Harold E. MacDonald, 65, who spent 22 years in retailing, figures that the same talents that enable H.F.C. to merchandise small loans so successfully will work to produce profits in retail chain merchandising. Since he took over the 87-year-old finance company in 1951, MacDonald...