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With several years of experience on corporation boards between them, some members are also amenable to Treasurer George F. Bennett's '33 view that Campaign GM is the "opening wedge"in a movement that will foul up corporate polities...
...mound of refuse, or the sweepings of a street, Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can, Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladder's start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart...
...used to shaping events often forget that events are fundamentally fickle. When their good fortune turns around, they cry foul. Few have cried louder than James J. Ling, the millionaire chief of what was once the nation's fastest-growing conglomerate, Ling-Temco-Vought Inc. In LTV's recently issued report for 1969, Ling declared: "Major negative perturbations in the overall economy have their in escapable effect on operational results of certain companies engaged in busi nesses which are directly affected...
...that America was still the Beautiful. Boyle follows the river down from its source at Mount Marcy (where the great conservationist Theodore Roosevelt received the news of McKinley's death by assassination) and finds its enemies innumerable. Thrifty upriver towns happily send their raw sewage roiling southward toward foul and wicked Manhattan. Tankers leak oil. Corporations discharge incalculable quantities of industrial waste. They always seem able to find a tame scientist to testify before civic bodies that acids, oils, oxides and industrial Dreck of all sorts are only minimally harmful. When that fails, they pay minimal fines and cheerfully...
...Foul! The most feared competitor is Japan's highly automated watch industry, which has captured 8% of the global market and is growing fast, mainly with jeweled-lever watches that generally sell for $30 or more. Last year the Japanese jolted the Swiss by winning all but one of the prizes for wristwatches in Geneva's chronometer competition, the horological equivalent of the Olympic Games. The Swiss are still crying foul. The Japanese watches, they say, had oversize balance wheels for better performance and were never intended for the mass market. "When you think of how the Germans...