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...cries of "monopoly" aroused by the attempt of Britain's mighty Imperial Chemical Industries to swallow fibermaking Courtaulds Ltd. (TIME, Jan. 26), the loudest have come from mild-mannered Avison Wormald, 49, managing director of Fisons Ltd. another multimillion-dollar British chemical company. A onetime boarding school teacher who sparked Fisons to much-needed modernization and expansion. Wormald accused I.C.I, of wanting "to obtain complete control of the manmade fiber industry in this country in order to participate in a European fibers cartel," predicted that if the merger went through, "every important chemical company in Britain will ultimately succumb...
...eleven issues, in lively and generally flawless Latin, the Acta has been reporting the news of ancient Rome for teachers and pupils in schools all over Britain. With a slim capital of ?100, two Latin masters-George Maxwell Lyne, 44, of the Blackpool Grammar School and Robert Douglas Wormald, 49, of the Worcester Royal Grammar School-had started it to persuade Britons that there was really nothing very dead about Latin. Their readers seemed to agree: teachers began ordering as many as 50 and 100 copies at a time (price: sixpence apiece). Circulation hit 9,000 with the first issue...
...editors were looking ahead to fresh problems. Soon to be reported was Caesar's affair with Cleopatra. ("We'll have to handle it delicately," says Wormald.) And in five years or so there would be a corking good story about the assassination of a dictator on the ides of March...