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Adios! The man charged with cutting this new pattern for the oil industry bears a stamp new to Mexican politics. When sad-eyed, ramrod-backed Antonio Bermúdez was treasurer of the state of Chihuahua, an acquaintance went to him and said: "Antonio, my friend, I want to import several carloads of alcohol from the U.S., and if I pay taxes on it it will be very expensive. . . ." Bermúdez usually low-pitched voice rose to a roar: "If I invite you to my house for dinner then you can call me Antonio and call me your friend...
...Pattern. The new spirit of cooperation enabled Buchsbaum and Laderman to work out specific problems. Example: when friction developed between anti-union foremen and union members, Buchsbaum agreed to fire a troublemaking foreman, the union agreed to let him fire troublemaking union men. And with union chairmen handling shop discipline, foremen were free to supervise actual production. The company now has only one foreman for each 100 workers (v. one for 20 workers before unionization). Thanks to war orders - and lately expansion into new products - the dollar volume per worker (1,600) has tripled. The gross will be about...
Buchsbaum's quick settlement of its major problems, said the report, could not serve as a pattern for most U.S. businesses. There were special factors which enabled Buchsbaum to make such a rapid change. The company was small, relationships close, one man was in a position to make all decisions. The union leaders were intelligent, reasonable and honest...
...pattern of native rivalry shows in Nigeria, too. Most of Zik's followers are members of the Ibo tribe. The British say that their departure would bring the Moslem Hausa tribe down from the north to dominate the Ibos and Yorubas. (That the British have sometimes encouraged such dissension does not obviate the fact that fierce quarrels among the colonial peoples break out even where the British do their level best to create unity among native groups...
Last week Mike Cowles reversed this pattern. From now on, he will live in his bachelor apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers (he was recently divorced), commute to Iowa every other weekend. As Cowles moved into the editor's office at Look, jovial, 42-year-old Harlan Logan, his editor since 1942, moved out. Said Logan, not so jovially: "Mr. Cowles and I are in general disagreement on what is a family magazine...