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...were more so than Transitron Electronic Corp. of Wakefield, Mass. Its stock went from 36 to 60 in six months, and its sales from $7.4 million to $47 million between 1956 and 1960. But when electronics dipped in mid-1961, partly because of fast-rising imports, none felt the shake-out so sharply as Transitron (which closed last week at 7⅜). And nobody had more trouble than its enterprising brother-founders, David and Leo Bakalar...
...work is so outstanding that it deserves a place as the Article of the Year; not that I have read all the rest of them, but I can recognize a unique breadth of feeling for the needs and the drifts of the times. I would like to know and shake hands with the chap who did it, but I won't ask any indiscreet questions...
...encased in bulletproof glass, hung waiting for the official introduction. Most people couldn't see a thing except other people. The guests shuffled grumpily. Women slipped off their toe-squeezing high-heeled shoes, and one Southern Senator asked his wife if she wanted him to "go up and shake hands" with Lisa. Red Cross aides took their positions and waited gravely for the Gallery to be declared a disaster area...
Although elated over their victory, the junior Republicans publicly insisted that they had not really been acting against Halleck or Arends. "What we tried to do," said one, "was to strengthen Charlie's position and at the same time shake the foundation under his feet. It all depends, I think, on how Charlie reads the signs and portents." Ex-Chairman Hoeven thought he could read signs and portents quite clearly. Said he of the rebels: "They're going after Mr. Halleck and Mr. Arends in due time...
...comprehensive economic planning along the lines now practiced in France. But the report left Europe's automakers unmoved. They mostly agree that overcapacity will result if all present expansion plans are carried out, and they frankly admit that within the next few years they expect a shake-out similar to the one that rocked the U.S. auto industry in the 1920s. Says Fiat Vice Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, 40: "There are about 40 automobile manufacturers in Europe today; 20 of them will probably have disappeared by 1970." But Agnelli, along with most of his competitors, believes that...