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Itek prospered, so long as it held to its original purpose. But when it expansively acquired Hermes Electronics Co. and Photostat Corp., it suffered a bad case of technological indigestion. Concerned by the loose management and by the 1961 loss, Walkowicz, with the 20% Rockefeller interest to protect, called for reinforcements. He prevailed on Frank Lindsay, a member of the management consultant firm of McKinsey & Co., to become executive vice president and help Leghorn revamp the company. Lindsay was a longtime friend of both Walkowicz and Leghorn, and as a former member of the Central Intelligence Agency was closely familiar...
Author Tisdall does his own scurrilous best to indicate that the aging Victoria was not always alone in the beds at Windsor and Balmoral over which hung photographs of her dear, dead Albert. He goes so far as to describe a mysterious photostat sent to him years ago, and now unaccountably lost, purporting to be the pieced-together fragments of a love letter in the Queen's handwriting, fished from Brown's scrap basket. The basis of the bond between them, he speculates, may have been that Brown was a spiritualist medium through whom Victoria thought...
Desirable Mates. First Mitchell and Martin read from a photostat of a statement that they had left behind in a Laurel, Md. safe-deposit box-a maneuver designed to prove that they had made up their minds well out of reach of Russian brainwashing. They had "sought citizenship in the Soviet Union." said the two, because they had learned that the U.S. lies, because its secret agents spy on both hostile and friendly powers, because its international operatives manipulate money and military supplies in an effort to overthrow unfriendly governments...
...majority of the committee later passed Sullivan's motion to photostat copies of the petition to be distributed to all school committee members. Shaplin requested that the group ask legal counsel to determine whether the move was within the law, but, agreeing with Fitzgerald that the committee could do what it wished with the petition, the majority defeated his proposal...
...origin of the miscellaneous notes from the different types of paper used in different countries. For years these same notes have been a huge index to hundreds of foreign manuscripts. Wolfson reads them, and when he finds a suggestion of relevant material he writes to Europe for a photostat of the page he wants. With this system, he has avoided the need of repeated trips abroad...