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...million. On top as chairman will sit Little; his president will be Robert L. Huffines Jr., president of Robbins; Joseph B. Ely, onetime governor of Massachusetts and for the past nine months head of American Woolen, will be chairman of the executive committee. Said Little: "The merger was the quickest one ever accomplished. It took only one year." Added Ely: "It was a hell of a year...
...From 1960 on, the strategic balance will begin to swing in favor of whichever side is quickest to find defenses against the other's offensive weapons. Scientific research is thus the most critical factor in the West's defense planning. Britain, which already spends at least one-tenth of its arms budget on research, will probably increase the proportion, hoping that in quality, if not in quantity, it can stay far ahead of the Soviet Union...
...Echoing his nihilism is a chorus of earnest buffoons: a Prussian millionaire who yearns to be an ethical superman, a general who is a kind of military Mortimer J. Adler and wants to classify all the world's great ideas, a beautiful but muddled matron who thinks the quickest trip to heaven is on a cultural broomstick. Author Musil perches them all on the lip of a volcano-the years 1913 and early 1914, just before the outbreak of World...
Undoubtedly the quickest way to get to Europe, albeit the most expensive, is by plane. And at this time of year air travel offers another advantage in that accomodations are still available for most summer flights. Prices, which are the objectionable factor here, are approximately $513 for roundtrip flights to London and $549 to Paris. As an added incentive, at least one air line offers arrangements whereby a passenger can stop off at ten or more European cities on one round-trip ticket...
...American spirit of private enterprise took an unusual turn at Yale recently when Economics instructor Robert E. Will, who believes that "No student can really understand the market until he has lost a few genuine dollars in it," proceeded to collect $600 from his class and show them the quickest way to lose...