Word: v
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dietzel v. Vaught. But from the start, young Perry Lee seemed to listen most respectfully to two top men of the tough Southeastern Conference: Louisiana State's blond, boyish Paul Dietzel, coach of last season's national champions, and Mississippi's canny, reticent Johnny Vaught, coach of this season's second-ranking team. Each man had an ally in Natchez. Boosting Dietzel and L.S.U. was Orthopedic Surgeon Jack Phillips, an L.S.U. alumnus (and former football manager), who took Perry Lee to L.S.U. games, assiduously cultivated the elder Dunns, once even helped Mrs. Dunn take...
...questioning India's Army Chief of Staff. Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, he asked when he first knew about the road. In 1957, said the general, and he had offered proposals to safeguard the security of India, but they were turned down by the Defense Minister, lean, rancorous V. K. Krishna Menon. "Why?" asked Desai. "Because," replied Thimayya, "he said that the enemy was on the other side [i.e., Pakistan], not on this side...
...whose $17,000-a-year salary is less than one-sixth as much as NBC's President Robert Kintner's, expects to clear only $40 million in advertising revenues this year, and Parliament will have to make up the rest of CBC's $75 million budget (v. $37 million for Britain...
...rising volume and constricting profit margins, Philips is the envy of its competitors. Although 1959 sales are 15% over 1958, the profit margin actually is widening (e.g., 7.6% so far in 1959 v. 6.8% last year). Even last year, Philips' return on sales was higher than General Electric's, which was 6.1%. Looking ahead, the stockholders, whose investment has appreciated six times in ten years, firmly believe, with President Otten, that "growth is in our blood...
Three Shifts. While the bulk of the goods is still produced by industrious Chinese pieceworkers in cramped cubby holes and back rooms, more and more are coming from new, modern factories such as Lee's. He employs 5,000 workers, v. 150 when he started, has one factory running three full shifts a day, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting and sewing cot ton garments for export. Last August he added a new factory to weave 1,000,000 yds. of cloth per month, cut 60,000 gar ments a day. His own garment exports...