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Died. Ahmed Bey Zogu, 65, former King Zog I of Albania, who helped his Balkan land shake off Turkish despotism only to see it taken over, first by Italy, then by the Soviet Union; of stomach ulcers and a liver ailment; in Paris. "My life is an adventure story," said Zog, a mountain chieftain who rose from Premier to President to King, reigned for eleven years before Mussolini's troops chased him into lifelong exile in 1939. Zog, whose notorious chain-smoking (150 cigarettes a day) came as close to killing him as four assassination attempts, spent his last...
...Pittsburgh's Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield joined the board, and Smith-Corona acquired the Kleinschmidt Laboratories, a small, hustling outfit specializing in communications systems and related research. Bud Mead, who was executive vice president of Kleinschmidt, became vice president for operations for Smith-Corona and began to shake up the company. He mechanized assembly lines, closed antiquated production facilities, and built a new $2,000,000 factory in South Cortland, N.Y. Mead estimates that the company's typewriter-production capacity is now 20% greater even though it employs 1,000 fewer workers...
THOUGH new to the auto business, he knows that any company is only as good as its dealers. He set out on a flying trip (during which he sometimes sat in as copilot) to shake up Studebaker dealers. He saw 1,300 of the company's 2,200 dealers (down from 2,600 in 1959) One of Studebaker's troubles is the fall-off of dealers, mostly among "duals" who handled the Lark along with other makes until other automakers brought out their compacts. Some dealers began to drop the Lark, but Studebaker thought Chrysler Corp, went...
...another project, two students chose to study the "time constant for cooling a bottle of Coca-Cola in ice water." They thought it would be a cinch-all they would need was a thermometer and a stop watch. But they found out differently. "It depends on whether you shake the bottle," says Mollö-Christensen. "Remember that little twist the wine steward gives the bottle when he puts it in a bucket? It speeds the cooling...
Much of the European auto industry is only now beginning to shake off the shock of the sudden falloff. British auto factories, after cutting back production and putting many workers on short time, are now approaching normal production again. Despite a 37% drop in sales to the U.S. last year, British automakers hope to regain a fatter share of the market. Says Rootes Motors, Inc.'s Managing Director John T. Panks: "It's nothing but bloody nonsense that the imported car is about to vanish from the U.S. market." To prove his case, Rootes sent to the show...