Suzy wrote:
Matter of interest, isn't Bird Corp now run by a lady (or at least was when
I bought my 43 in the seventies)?

Don't know about the seventies, but as of July 2007 the President and
CEO was one Mark Johnson, picture at
http://www.bird-technologies.com/news/e-award.htm. Seems to be of the
male persuasion, sorry.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL