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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...officials, and in recent months they have managed to murder an average of ten a day. One government administrator is still stubbornly at work, although he was shot six times by the Communists and left for dead. For safety, village chiefs from small hamlets move each night to a common dormitory in one of the larger villages...
...little over a century ago, in the bustling seaport of New Bedford, Mass., a man and a boy found a common interest. The boy, Albert Pinkham Ryder, the son of the town's jack-of-all-trades, was only eleven at the time. But town legend has it that every so often he would cross Mill Street to watch his neighbor Albert Bierstadt, 28, paint. In time, both left their home town to seek their fortunes as artists, but if their paths ever crossed after that, there is no record of it. Last week, as New Bedford...
FOOD MERGER will join Hunt Foods (sales last year: $147 million) with Wesson Oil and Snowdrift Co. (sales last year: $160 million) if stockholders approve. Hunt already owns more than 50% of Wesson's common stock...
Last week Olivetti further tightened its control of Underwood. The Olivetti-dominated Underwood board unanimously approved a plan for Underwood to trade more than $30 million worth of its common stock (1,200,000 shares) in exchange for Olivetti's U.S. subsidiary, Olivetti Corp. of America (1959 sales: $15 million). If stockholders approve, Olivetti will have 69% control of Underwood stock, and the number of Underwood shares outstanding will be doubled...
...Edge of Day, by Laurie Lee. The British poet states the common truths of boyhood uncommonly well in this pleasant, unsentimental memoir...