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...number of fields, including national security. An Oklahoman, Harlow served as General George Marshall's Capitol Hill liaison man during World War II, later headed the House Armed Services Committee staff and became a White House assistant under Dwight Eisenhower. During the Kennedy-Johnson years he was Procter & Gamble's chief Washington representative...
After he was appointed president and chief executive in 1966, Gookin hired about a dozen top marketing men from outside. The majority came from Procter & Gamble, which produces so many marketing executives for other companies that it is considered a kind of on-line business school for many U.S. corporations...
...income for the nation's 500 water bottlers. Today, jet aircraft use purified water mixed with fuel in order to keep engines cooler during takeoffs; electric utilities use the stuff to wash insulators while the juice remains on-because the purity of the bath prevents dangerous sparking. Procter & Gamble uses millions of gallons for mouthwashes and similar items so that they will always taste the same. The builders of a new Inglewood, Calif., sports palace called the Forum fed their cement mixers exclusively with bottled water in order to provide a better-setting concrete...
...skills" does for bosses what the selling course does for salesmen. "Most managers," says a Xerox staffer, "are not able to face a subordinate, analyze a problem and reach a solution." To the problem-solving course have come 2,000 employees from Ford, 600 from Westinghouse and 300 from Procter & Gamble. Now offering its lessons mainly to production and manufacturing managers, Xerox is working on a variation for marketing types, will introduce something for general corporate executives late this year...
...Procter & Gamble's highly regarded training program features planned personal coaching instead of the large classroom instruction and menial tasks often associated with a training program. The company's unique approach pays off with some first-class management material...