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Brooker may prove just what Ward needs. At least, he was trained in the right place: Sears, Roebuck & Co., where he rose to a vice-presidency for manufacturing before leaving in 1958 to head the Sears-affiliated Whirlpool Corp. But his appointment helped kill the enthusiasm of Sol Cantor, president of New York's discount-minded Interstate Department Stores, for a previously planned merger with Ward. Cantor and other Interstate brass were miffed when Ward's Chairman John Barr did not check the selection of Brooker with them...
...same machines-converted to electricity-are still washing clothes. Even more remarkable, the Maytag Co. of little Newton, Iowa, has withstood the churnings that have long since washed out most independent laundry-machine makers, now stands a strong second in the billion-dollar industry. Outstripped in sales only by Whirlpool Corp. (RCA Whirlpool, Sears's Kenmore), Maytag, in its own field, ranks ahead of such giants as General Electric, General Motors (Frigidaire), Borg-Warner (Norge) and Westinghouse...
...Long concerned with the U.S. kitchen, engineers of Whirlpool Corp. (dishwashers, freezers) escaped into deepest space. Worried that dull food during long journeys may drive astronauts dotty, Whirlpool last week was busy testing a space kitchen designed to serve Swiss steak, baked ham, filet of sole, cakes, cookies and other goodies out of gleaming bins and refrigerators. There will be three electric ovens; from nozzles hot and cold water will spurt into collapsible tubes containing dehydrated coffee or fruit juice, so that the weightless spacemen can drink by squeezing the liquids into their mouths. Built under Air Force contract...
...Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina will be mourned only by the relatives and friends who joined him for more than thirty years in plundering and misruling an already-poor country. Unfortunately, the power vacuum left by the Dominican dictator, coming as it does in the midst of a Caribbean Whirlpool, only adds to the quandary faced by the United States, and by all of Latin America...
Inside the village U.S. girls eased weary legs by dipping them into churning washing machines for impromptu whirlpool therapy, astonished cooks by devouring such mixtures as hamburgers, spaghetti, marmalade and tomato juice. U.S. girl gymnasts captivated their Italian hosts by persuading their bus driver to take them to a beach instead of to a practice session amid the dusty. 1,700-year-old ruins of the Baths of Caracalla...