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Deeply involved in technology, Thornton is neither a professionally trained engineer nor a technician, and, though he is a great believer in running things under tight statistical control, he places little reliance on electronic logic in making management decisions. In a field where speed is a motto, he snaps out no instant decisions, likes to take his time about making up his mind. He overcomes a problem by attacking it with dogged tenacity, painstakingly learning all the facts, then turning them over slowly in his mind many times until they fit together into a decision-a decision that often comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: An Appetite for the Future | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...Yale atmosphere might educate Wallace and stimulate the University. Now that another group of students, led by members of the Yale Daily News, is trying again to arrange for a visit by Wallace, Brewster has a chance to learn from his students and offer them every encouragement. The Yale motto, with which Brewster may be familiar, is "Lux et Veritas"; it is given to no president to suppress either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace at Yale | 9/24/1963 | See Source »

...Willis finds himself assailed by criticisms. He is, critics charge, an egotist massively convinced of his own Tightness, stonily resistant to other people's ideas. He bristles at any questioning of his administration. Wags say that he has revised Chicago's motto, "I Will," to "I, Willis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Integration: The Education of Big Ben | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...liberal that more than 2,000 foreign firms have registered headquarters in Vaduz. While it is a constitutional democracy, Liechtenstein virtually dispenses with politics. There are two parties, known as the Reds and the Blacks, but they are equally conservative and anti-Communist and even have the same stirring motto: Faith in God, Prince and Fatherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liechtenstein: The Happy Have-Not | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

Frank Converse is a properly handsome Achillas, but he speaks poorly. Young and dashing James Ray, dressed in blue and gold, is just right for Apollodorus, the aesthetics-minded carpet dealer whose motto is "Art for Art's sake." Nicholas Martin tries hard to be the insipid Ptolemy; but it is ridiculous to cast a grown man as a ten-year-old brat--King he may be, Canute...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Caesar & Cleopatra' at Stratford | 8/6/1963 | See Source »

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