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...Gung-Ho. Pickering nourishes no such sentimental attachment to the past. Faced with the touchy problem of whether JPL could build a 447-lb. Mariner, he dug into his work with the quiet devotion that is much more characteristic of him than his loud Explorer forays into Washington officialdom. He held endless meetings, consulted everybody worth a hearing. One scientist who heard that a pet instrument would have to be abandoned on the newer, smaller satellite got so emotional that he was almost fired to keep the peace. Pickering never lost his composure. "I had to establish," he says...
Thinking Big. Sometimes civic leadership and gung-ho spirit revive a dying place. The population of Clarksville, Mo., declined from 800 in 1940 to 338 in 1960. The town had no doctor or dentist. Three out of every four youngsters in each new crop of high school graduates departed for more promising places. But under the leadership of a local automobile dealer, Milton Duvall, a group of townspeople formed a development corporation with capital of $132,000. Its first project was a $50,000 medical center; dedicated in mid-1961, it quickly attracted a doctor and a dentist. Since then...
Mutual Aid. The bank's new direction was set by current Chairman S. H. (for Sieng Heng) Ho, 62. Spotting the success Western banks were having by talking about "your friendly banker." Ho began to woo the small savers who had been overlooked by the older banks in Hong Kong. Like Tammany ward heelers in the 1870s, Hang Seng men greeted incoming refugees, helped to straighten out their visa and legal problems and to find them homes. Today, Hang Seng sometimes seems to be one big Chinese mutual aid society devoted to sending mourners to its clients' funerals...
...about its charges because Hang Seng backs many struggling entrepreneurs-reportedly including Hong Kong's bookies-who find it difficult to get credit elsewhere. Hang Seng figures that it will prosper so long as Hong Kong does. Fingering an abacus behind his 8-ft.-long teak desk. Chairman Ho says: "Hong Kong's future is good for at least ten years, possibly 20." After that. Hang Seng will doubtless be the first to find another green pasture...
...over Chicago. 49-0 over Philadelphia). But in this league of experts, it is an article of faith that on a given Sunday any team can beat any other. Everyone was gunning for the Packers, giving it the old college try. Finally, on Thanksgiving Day in Detroit, the gung-ho Lions took the Packers apart, pad by pad. In the first half, Detroit's massive linemen smothered Green Bay Quarterback Bart Starr for losses that totaled 79 yds.; the Lions built up a 23-0 lead and held...