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...allegiance to outdated methods of processing and marketing. But the meat packers have learned to adjust to a new era of supermarketing and new methods of livestock-raising. No company has learned better than Chicago's Armour & Co., the nation's second biggest meat packer (after Swift) and its most aggressive. Last week Armour reported earnings of $16.3 million on sales of $1.8 billion, three times its profit of five years...
...professor of music at Yale until 1953, when he returned to Europe and settled down in Zurich. He was a short, round little man of robust health until circulatory ailments began to plague him in his declining years. Hindemith died at 68, following four swift strokes, and was buried near Vevey on Lake Geneva. Only a few close friends were at his graveside...
...LANSNER-Kornblee, 58 East 79th. Though she considers her pastels mere preludes to the large oils so fashionable today, the artist is plainly a master, through her own swift stroke, of the chalky medium. When her female figures are multiplied in oils and blown up into 10-ft. canvases, they are stripped of intimacy, become stiff and frigid strangers lost in a roomful of mirrors. Through...
...electronic gadgets so vital to vehicles in far-out space suffer from some far-out troubles. Cosmic radiation sickens their semiconductors. Vibrations and swift temperature changes cause fractures in all-important wires. Lubricants evaporate into the vacuum of space. But scientists are already working on some far-out cures. The latest: a tin-magnesium-aluminum alloy that can be made into wires that grow gap-bridging "whiskers" when broken and soon heal their own wounds...
...biggest manufacturer, International Minerals & Chemical Corp. of Skokie, Ill., some 20 companies have plowed into the field, including such chemical giants as W. R. Grace, Monsanto, Allied and Du Pont. Since few farmers still rely on the less effective animal fertilizers, many meat packers-including Armour and Swift -have kept up with the times by diversifying into chemical fertilizers. Lately, half a dozen U.S. oil companies-among them, Gulf, Socony Mobil, Cities Service and Kerr-McGee-have come into the business in a big way by buying up smaller fertilizer companies as marketing arms for petrochemical byproducts that they turn...