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...Scant hours after Reston's message went out from New York, prudence overtook the management of the Times. Fearing to upset Bert Powers and his printers at a time when it might still be possible to settle with them, the Times sent out a mandatory order to kill the column. A few papers, such as the Houston Chronicle, had already gone to press with it. The Kansas City Star protested the kill order, but the Times's own outposts printed nary a word. And Scotty Reston. who never before had a column suppressed by the paper...
Even with injuries to crucial players, the Crimson's scoring punch should prove too much for Dartmouth. The varsity skaters have produced 74 goals in 14 games while goalie Godfrey Wood has held the opposition to a scant 88 markers...
...then. Even more disturbing, the doctors diagnosed Ro Anne's aortic abnormality as a form in which the great artery is narrowed just above the point where it leaves the heart, close to the aortic valve. This is such a rare condition* that in the U.S. only a scant half-dozen operations had been done to correct...
Without a Plan. Ampex got into trouble by growing almost without effort-and without planning. In 1955 Ampex Founder Alexander M. Poniatoff,* a brilliant engineer with scant taste for administration, stepped up to chairman and turned over operational control of the company to ex-Banker George I. Long Jr., 55. Faced with a constant proliferation of products, Long tried to meet the situation by decentralizing Ampex into five divisions, each so loosely controlled that it amounted almost to an independent company. This added millions to overhead-millions Ampex could no longer afford when the 1960-61 recession began...
...firm of Cyril Lord Ltd., which produces fine poplin for Brooks Brothers and Sulka, announced that it was closing two of its British mills and planned to replace them with a new, $2,000,000 plant in South Africa. New British investment in South Africa has jumped from a scant $11 million in 1961 to an estimated $28 million this year. Britain now has $2.5 billion invested in South Africa (v. $2.2 billion in the U.S.). In addition, increasing amounts of U.S., French and German capital are flowing into the country...