Word: wilson
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...down as the most contentious since 1848. We are watching a worldwide revolutionary movement." Indeed, the seeds of dissent seem to be sprouting everywhere and almost simultaneously. West German students riot against a democratic coalition government while their Spanish counterparts make Francisco Franco's twilight years uneasy. Harold Wilson's government bobs precariously in a sea of discontent, while in parts of Africa the old tribalism engulfs the new nationalism. In Czechoslovakia, having overturned one of the most obdurate Stalinist regimes to survive in Eastern Europe, libertarian pressure refuses to subside...
...Baker, Roy Shaw, and Doug Hardin--the stalwarts of Harvard's long-distance corps--and Dick Benka, Ron Wilson, and Charlie Ajootian, the Crimson's strong men, will all make the journey to the West Coast for the June 13-15 meet...
...Wilson and Ajootian wil both be contestants in the hammer throw. Wilson--who will be seeded first in the ICA4's this weekend as a result of his season high 193' throw--easily met the NCAA qualifying standard of 172', as did Ajootian's 187' throw...
...Wilson's brilliant associate, onetime Rochester Lawyer Sol M. Linowitz, who two years ago 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...
Making the Most. One of Wilson's better products has been President McColough. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, McColough served in the Royal Navy in World War II, got a Harvard Business School degree in 1949, quickly decided that "business is more interesting in the U.S. than in Canada." He almost changed his mind in 1954 when, after five years with small Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., he went for a job interview at Xerox (then Haloid). "It wasn't very impressive," McColough recalls. "I went up to see one of the vice presidents...