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...each weekday, two Cadillacs purr up to the front and rear doors of the modern, lawn-surrounded factory of the Kaynar Corp. in Los Angeles. Brainy, lightly muscled Kenneth Reiner. 43, Kaynar's president, gets out at the rear door. Brawny (5 ft. 8 in.. 165 Ibs.), outgoing Frank Klaus, 44, vice president and treasurer, gets out at the front. Each is careful not to meet the other...
Klaus and Reiner work in separate offices, purposely isolated at opposite ends of the sprawling (100,000 sq. ft.) factory, have no intercoms, do not consult with each other on the telephone, rarely mix socially. Yet their purposefully separated management has driven Kaynar in 16 years from a two-man shop to the world's largest manufacturer of an unlikely combination of products: self-locking aircraft nuts and women's hairclips. Last week, with sales humming on four continents at the rate of $15 million yearly, Kaynar opened a new plant in France to take advantage...
...Grievous Suffering." When they first met on the Purdue University campus, Students Reiner and Klaus haggled over the price of a secondhand psychology textbook that Reiner wanted to sell. Says Klaus: "The argument was academic. I didn't have any money." Klaus and Reiner soon found a source. After Minneapolis-Honeywell offered Reiner a postgraduation job-and then withdrew the offer-they drove to Minneapolis, badgered the company into a cash settlement on grounds of "inconvenience and grievous mental suffering." They headed for California, opened a candy business that folded when World War II came along...
Northwestern University Bruce Catton, author, journalist, editor L.H.D. Raymond Massey, actor D.F.A. Fritz Reiner, musical director, Chicago Symphony D.F.A...
...Reiner supporters pointed out that the real reason for the cancellation might be the conductor's health: there have been persistent rumors of heart trouble. Despite Reiner's assurance that he would try to set up a six-week European tour in the spring of 1960, Chicago papers set up a clamor: "For the first time," wrote Critic Roger Dettmer in the American, "Chicago might have gained a reputation for something else than Prohibition Era hoodlums, gang wars and civic graft. Fritz Reiner owes Chicago an explanation...