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Gillette entered the field with some reluctance. It could afford to ignore the success of Britain's venerable Wilkinson Sword Ltd., which has been unable to meet demand ever since it began selling its Super Sword-Edge stainless blades in the U.S. 18 months ago. But demand for the stainless blades lured Gillette competitors Schick (Krona Plus) and American Safety Razor (Personna and PAL) into the field-and Gillette was forced to go along...
...sharpen than the carbon steel that is used in most razor blades. Gillette will produce its stainless blades in a new $10 million addition to its Boston plant, which is capable of producing more stainless blades in a week than the 7,000,000 exported to the U.S. by Wilkinson last year...
...three wonderful months of clambakes and necking," a matron remembers wistfully. "The boys just had a good time and the girls helped them have it. Now they've all got to be off somewhere doing something." "Everybody has a summer job here at U.C.L.A.," says Recent Grad John Wilkinson. "Anybody can just go to school," explains his friend Jeff Donfeld. "Now the prestigious thing to say is I go to school and I work in summer.' " Williams College Chaplain John Eusden describes the phenomenon as "a new, near-missionary zeal - very contagious. The students are extremely conscious...
Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. has had such success in the U.S. with its long-lasting stainless steel razor blades that American Safety Razor and Schick have produced copies, and Gillette is now preparing to assault the market. Finding themselves unable to keep up the pace against competitors with greater resources, some companies have chosen to sell their new ideas to larger firms. Even giant Monsanto, first into the market with a soap for automatic washers (All), eventually got out of the hotly competitive market rather than try to match the budgets of soapmakers...
There is no interest in credit for sophomore tutees in Economics, according to Harold F. Wilkinson, head tutor and Instructor in Economics. Wilkinson said that credit would only complicate the present first-year tutorial, in which those sophomores who have already had Economics 1 are separated from those who have...