Word: bluff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gospel of Success. Bluff, cigar-smoking (ten Coronas a day) Roy Abernethy started out as an apprentice Packard mechanic at 18? an hour in 1926. By the time he joined Romney seven years ago, Abernethy had won a formidable reputation as a Packard dealer ($1,000,000 worth of cars in a single year in Hartford, Conn.) and as sales vice president of Willys Motors. At A.M.C. he put new life into a listless sales organization by flying 50,000 miles a year to spread Romney's gospel of the compact car. Cross, a quiet, analytical attorney, drew...
...both labor and management last week spread word that they expect no repetition of 1959's disastrous, 116-day strike, have decided to start their talks earlier than before so that they can iron out their differences well before the current three-year contract expires on June 30. Bluff David J. McDonald. 59, president of the United Steelworkers, was jocularly casual about how he expected to start bargaining with his laconic adversary, U.S. Steel Corp. Executive Vice President R. (for Richard) Conrad Cooper. Said McDonald: "I'll call Coop and say I think...
Died. Robert Allen Stranahan Sr., 75, bluff board chairman of Toledo's Champion Spark Plug Co. (and father of Professional Golfer Frank Stranahan), who started making spark plugs as a hobby after his graduation from Harvard in 1908, ultimately built his spare-time enterprise into a $100 million business in automotive parts and accessories; after a long illness; in Toledo...
...last fifteen years a fundamental conflict of interest between this country and the Soviet Union has engendered an increasingly dangerous spiral of weapons development, threat and counter-threat, bluff and counter-bluff...
...Driving Force. If this marriage comes off (TIME, Jan. 26), American will play the husband. American will give its name to the combined company, and American's bluff president, C. R. Smith, will become chairman and boss. Eastern's chief, Malcolm A. Maclntyre, 54, a former Under Secretary of the Air Force (1957-58), will become president and next in command to "C.R.," who is a vigorous 62. Eastern's pioneering chairman, Eddie Rickenbacker, 71, who lately has been more active on the banquet circuit than in the board room, will probably fold his wings. And somewhere...