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Singled out as the best features of off-campus life were privacy, friendliness, informality, absence of rules, variety, "the fun of moving," Edmands' zinc bathtubs, Gilman's Iron stove, and cooking one's own meals...
...Xerox came on the market in 1960 with its 914 model, which makes copies by dissipating an electrically charged powder onto ordinary paper, three other companies-SCM, Addressograph's Bruning division, and American Photocopy-have entered the field. The competitors' machines make copies on paper precoated with zinc oxide, a dry photoconductive chemical...
Mann battled to protect such Latin American exports as copper, lead and zinc to the U.S. Between 1958 and 1960, he almost singlehanded brought the U.S. into a worldwide marketing agreement designed to end wild fluctuations in coffee prices. When President Eisenhower and then Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon got to work on the complicated hemisphere-wide development plan that later became the Alliance for Progress, Mann was a principal adviser...
...overseas capacity 30% within three years. Reynolds is putting up a mill in Canada and a fabricating plant in Turkey, and Kaiser has opened plants in India and West Germany. Recently, Kaiser joined Canada's Aluminium Ltd., France's Pechiney and Britain's Rio Tinto-Zinc Corp. in ambitious plans to build and operate a $112 million alumina plant in Australia. When all the world finally takes to aluminum, the U.S. companies plan to be there-profitably...
...Kokusai Kogyo Co. is awaiting only Japanese government approval before handing over $8.7 million to buy Sheraton's luxurious Princess Kaiulani Hotel on Waikiki. London's Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa. Ltd. is bidding $17.5 million to take control of St. Louis' American Zinc, Lead & Smelting...