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...coffee-processing and luncheonette-chain operation (1966 sales: $48 million), which is holding merger talks with Consolidated. - Control Data Corp., a leading manufacturer of computer hardware, agreed to take over a well-matched mate: C-E-I-R Inc., a $22 million-a-year, Washington-based computer software outfit that provides data-processing services. Like much of the computer industry, both Control Data and C-E-l-R have had their ups and downs, but for Control Data the news of late has been mostly up. Rebounding from a disastrous $1,678,000 loss last year, the company last week...
...South Vietnamese battalions to make a 250-sq.-mi. rectangle surrounding the V.C. battalions. While the perimeter formed, two battalions of tough South Vietnamese Marines came clattering in by copter to flush out the quarry. By chance, the Marines landed squarely in the midst of a crack V.C. outfit. At once they were in a furious firefight and the Marine commander stubbornly waved off U.S. artillery fire and air strikes so that he could keep his own men in close contact with the enemy. After 22 hours of almost nonstop righting, the V.C. broke off to slip away by night...
...class in her pilot's exams-only to be turned down by Air France because long flights would be "too tough" for a woman. If a woman at the controls seemed odd to Air France, it did not to Air Inter, the fast-growing outfit that hired Jacqueline last May, and had her well up in a public-relations orbit before her first flight...
...arrive. To foil the Boche plan, a Scottish regiment sends in a wide-eyed private (Alan Bates), who finds the town empty save for the inmates of a lunatic asylum. Spilling out of their bin and into the town, they find an abandoned circus with enough period costumes to outfit nine road companies of Marat-Sade...
...crowded "crash" pad and returns runaways to their parents). San Francisco alone has such drug-derived service organizations as HALO (Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization), the HIP Job Coop, with 6,000 names on its part-time employment roster, and Huckleberry's (homes for runaways). In Los Angeles, an outfit called Kerista, founded three months ago by a former heroin addict named John Thomsen, provides pads and proteins for homeless hippies...