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...shot put, the Crimson's Joe Naughton will receive stiff competition from Dartmouth brothers Ted and Wayne Moody, Navy's Jim Bloom, and Penn's Ed Markowski. Bloom has bettered 58 feet; the others are 55-footers...
...million dollars this year on ads aimed mainly at Procter & Gamble's throwaway Pampers, which enjoyed a lion's share of the estimated $200 million market last year. "If you were a baby," goes one sample ad, "what would you want to wear-soft, cuddly cotton or stiff and sticky plastic and paper?" The pitch stresses that cloth diapers, unlike disposables, are reusable, a point bolstered by New York City hospitals, which complain that the disposal of plastic-lined diapers-either by burning or dumping-adds to the city's pollution. All this may seem regressive...
...sitting duck. In its eagerness to underbid its U.S. competitors (General Electric and Pratt & Whitney), Rolls accepted a fixed price for an engine that demanded technological breakthroughs to produce-and this in an inflationary age. It also committed itself to deliver all the engines by November 1971 or pay stiff penalties. The penalty provisions have never been disclosed, but are believed to oblige Rolls to pay up to $300 million -more than 60% of its last reported net worth. Presumably, the penalties rise as deliveries become later...
Penney's unwavering faith in the copybook maxims of his youth roused skepticism in a mercenary age, but his credo underlay his success. At his death last week after a heart attack in Manhattan, Penney, 95, left a 1,660-store empire that he built without compromising the stiff principles he had absorbed from three generations of Baptist-preacher ancestors. He neither smoked nor drank, and for years demanded the same abstemious conduct from his employees. "I believe in adherence to the Golden Rule, faith in God and the country," he often said. "I would rather be known...
...past years, the Crimson has had an easy time with M. I. T. But those days are gone, and the Harvard fencers will face a stiff match tonight. M. I. T. has two excellent fencers at epee, one of whom finished second in the Easterne last year, two fairly good foilers, and an adequate saber squad...