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Bands of Lunda natives, armed with knives, machetes, and razor-sharp bicycle chains lashed to sticks, stormed through the streets looking for Baluba youths wearing monkey fur headpieces and animal-skin war dresses. Both sides chased terrified police out of native quarters, brushed aside the pleas of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe when he arrived in the city begging for the carnage to stop...
...Blood. For Ford, Miller's promotion has particular significance. Like McNamara before him, the razor-sharp, rapid-fire Nebraskan is what is known as a "Friden type"-Detroit's term for financial men, derived from the trade name of a calculator. Miller's move into the presidency is thus a clear sign that the often criticized financial elite will continue to guide Ford's future...
Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. has had such success in the U.S. with its long-lasting stainless steel razor blades that American Safety Razor and Schick have produced copies, and Gillette is now preparing to assault the market. Finding themselves unable to keep up the pace against competitors with greater resources, some companies have chosen to sell their new ideas to larger firms. Even giant Monsanto, first into the market with a soap for automatic washers (All), eventually got out of the hotly competitive market rather than try to match the budgets of soapmakers...
Richard Nixon arose from the wreckage of his political career-and found that life, after all, is not just a bed of razor blades. Last week, in his first public appearance since last November, he got warm applause after question-and-answer sessions in private clubs in New York and Chicago, held a jovial press conference in Chicago, and appeared on television with Jack Paar...
...camera as easy to use as the pencil'-and picture taking now becomes that easy." What makes it so, in Vaughn's view, is the latest developments from Kodak's researchers: new Kodak still-film cartridges that pop in and out like blades in a razor, and four new models of "Instamatic" cameras (prices: $16 to $110) that use the film and automatically set the lens opening...