Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...aggressive direction that Chrysler is getting from the new management of President Riccardo, 46, and Group Vice President Eugene A. Cafiero, 44, who is in charge of auto operations. They took over in January, when former President Virgil Boyd moved up to vice chairman and Chairman Lynn Townsend relinquished control of day-to-day operations; Townsend now concentrates on long-term policy decisions...
Misplaced Faith. Riccardo and Cafiero inherited some staggering headaches. Costs were high. Some of Chrysler's cars impressed consumers as unimaginatively styled, and quality control had slipped. Worst of all, Chrysler was initially left behind by the market swing to small cars because it had placed an even more stubborn faith than G.M. or Ford in the idea that the American motorist's love for big cars would last forever. During the 1969 model year, only one of its eight plants could produce the compacts...
...government's men have proved to be far more dynamic and adept at grabbing power than the representatives of private shareholders. Now the state's executives are likely to move into the vacuum created by Merzagora's departure. In Italy, the government already has monopoly control over electric power, telephones, railroads, radio and television. The state also has big interests in shipping, steel, airlines and oil. After last week's flare-up, it seems quite possible that the Continent's biggest chemical concern eventually will be tucked completely into the government fold...
...Revolution Russia and of his love encounters there with Mary are very promising. The sense of intimacy and sadness is worthy of Chekhov. Your descriptions of the countryside would have been the envy of Turgenev. May I commend you especially on the book's inventiveness and control. Having the depressed Ganin find new vitality through his memories while awaiting Mary's arrival from the Soviet Union creates a natural suspense of great force. Making Mary the wife of a bland squirt who also lives at the boardinghouse ensures a tasty intrigue. And finally, having Ganin realize that Mary...
...notwithstanding. Certainly, given the present political climate in the U.S., no American President could have invoked wartime powers as easily as Trudeau did to summarily outlaw a group of militant dissidents. In the U.S., officials can move strongly against an urban guerrilla threat under the recently enacted Organized Crime Control Law; among other things