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...Hal Rachal, 55, is president, chief executive, general counsel and personnel director of the largest employer in Kerrville, Texas (pop. 11,300). Though he is also controlling stockholder, he draws no salary, receives no dividends, pockets no expense money. Instead, he plows every cent of profit, which he prefers to call "operating surplus," back into his business-aviation. In the space of 13 years, Rachal's little known Mooney Aircraft Inc. has gone from the brink of bankruptcy to become, after Cessna, Piper and Beech, the nation's fourth biggest private-aircraft maker...
...Bear wasn't ready to roll over yet. On the first play from scrimmage, quarterback Hal Phillips pitched to former quarterback Mike Maznicki who stole Hornblower's thunder by flipping a 32 yard wobbler to split end Greg Kontos...
...Gatto's 55-yard punt return in the second period, which set up the second Harvard touchdown, was the seventh longest punt return in Crimson history, the longest one being of 89 yards in 1948 by Hal Moffie against Holy Cross...
Basic Economics. Hal Geneen's drive for recognition has a personal as well as corporate side. Born in England (his very British mother was improbably named Aida DeCruciani), he was less than a year old when his father, a manager of concert performers, moved the family to New York. By Hal's fifth birthday, his parents were separated. Mother, who remains a major influence in his life (Geneen's father is now dead), sent him to a succession of boarding schools and summer camps. At Suffield (Conn.) School, the older boys got Springfield rifles for military drill...
...Hal persevered, graduated from Suffield, afterward got a job as a page on Wall Street, where he developed an enthusiasm for finance. At night he studied accounting. At Manhattan's Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery, where he was an accountant for eight years, Geneen became known as a hard-driving young man whose grasp of business, recalls Lybrand Partner Philip Bardes, "went far beyond the balance statement." Geneen next moved through corporate-finance jobs at American Can Co., Bell & Howell and Jones & Laughlin Steel, combing their ledgers, as a colleague of those years later put it, like "a bloodhound...