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WILLARD C. BORDEN...
...other two stories are a chore to read. In "In the Autumn the Boy" Gail Borden develops a cumbersome word-joining technique to describe in nine pages what would have been vivider in one: "Crippled vision blurs, shuffles sideways, sees what seems caught form crushed within heathaze...
...other student poems are generally clearer, but so slight as to be almost non-existent. The sentence, "The bright sun of dance makes no/moon of him, he receives the light/an asteroid past Pluto," which appears in Gavin Borden's "Marriage," must rank as the least happy of the issue...
...also means an astounding expansion for the snack industry, which last year accounted for almost $2 billion in sales of everything from potato chips to pretzels to pralines. Attracted by such growth, dozens of big companies have hastened to get in their licks. One such is the Borden Co., a conservative, 107-year-old dairy company that bought out Cracker Jack and a pretzel and corn-chip manufacturer as part of its diversification program. Last week, Borden's continued to nibble, announced that it will acquire the Wise Potato Chip Co., whose annual sales are $20 million...
...Borden's moves toward such products, which are linked more often to beer guzzlers than to milk sippers, will be supervised by a new top man. In a shift long expected at Borden's, Executive Vice President Francis R. Elliott, 61, last week stepped up to become president and chief executive, replacing Harold W. Comfort, Borden's chief since 1956, who is retiring at 67. Elliott joined the nation's fifth largest food firm 35 years ago as a junior lawyer, soon shifted to the milk and ice cream division, which still accounts for about...