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...Real Danger. The fiber makers are crossing borders and oceans to vie for markets. Courtaulds is building plants in Sweden, Imperial in Portugal, Holland's Algemene Kunstzijde Unie (A.K.U.) in Spain. Farbenfabriken is building in Belgium, Chemstrand in Scotland, Firestone in France. Du Pont will finish a new Dacron and nylon plant in Germany next year...
...vie for the attention of all these drivers, who pass hundreds of gas stations on their travels, the oil companies are pumping more money into advertising that stresses the individuality and merit of their product. Nearly every brand now touts an additive-TCP, Petrox, Tri-tane, Boron-and a variety of octanes to suit different cars. Sunoco, for example, offers eight different octanes for practically every make and type of car. While the additives do improve auto performance and reduce maintenance problems, Elaine Yarring-ton, American Oil's marketing development manager, admits: "They do not ultimately result...
With the way cleared by the absence of Harvard's Walt Hewlett and ailing Dave Vie Boog led a Brown sweep of two-mile in 9:42.6, but Harvard's turned in a 4:17.3 time, his of the year, to beat Boog...
Warhol soup cans vie for the ready money with old masters. Alfalfa fortunes, born yesterday, successfully bid for art treasures against landed wealth. Rich plumbers dispossess the gentry on art-museum boards. Such propositions tickle Baird, an art insider, who deserted a gilt-framed career (New York's Frick Collection, Washington's National Gallery of Art) in favor of novel writing. Baird wields a deft brush to capture art's comic possibilities, but he wastes his brush strokes on a canvas of postage-stamp size...
About 40 Cliffies, in good shape from last week's marathon workout, will vie tomorrow for medals, a silver bowl, and honor in the House Championship Meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Radcliffe pool. Timed by Harvard swimming team members, the contest "ought to be close," Alice G. McCabe, Director of Swimming, said yesterday...