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Officers at Aeroquip were skeptical when the Youngstown employees presented their plan to buy the plant, but they agreed to sell if the buyers could pay the $2.5 million price. Frank Ciarniello, head of the United Rubber Workers local and a machine operator at the plant, and William Hawkins, then a general foreman and now vice president for operations, persuaded C.C. ("Pete") Broadwater, Aeroquip's manager of hose operations, to quit his job and join the new company as chairman and president. Aided by the Ohio Public Interest Campaign, a group that works to encourage business development, and Youngstown...
...like a "little king." He, in turn, scorns the willingness to compromise that was Scares' trademark. Says Sá Carneiro: "This was the evil of the Socialist Party. They conciliated with us and the Communists. It does not work." As a member between 1969 and 1973 of the rubber-stamp parliament of the post-Salazar dictatorship led by Marcello Caetano, Sá Carneiro pressed for political liberalization, including curbs on the brutal secret police. After the revolution, he was made a Minister Without Portfolio, but he soon quit to form his own party, which opposed nationalization of banks...
...exercise since World War II. Though the Austrians invited observers from all the East bloc countries to watch the maneuvers, they were not pleased with the interest shown by a middle-aged man who turned up around the barracks in the small town of St. Polten. He wore high rubber boots, and carried the classic impedimenta of espionage: a camera, binoculars, maps and a notebook...
...follow an industry's doings with sharpened curiosity and considerable knowledge. But the danger and the injustice of using anonymous sources is well illustrated by a New York Times story of Nov. 14. about the appointment of John J. Nevin as the new president of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Earlier he had headed Zenith Radio Corp., the country's largest manufacturer of color television sets...
...When a journalist asked last week about Henry Kissinger's role in bringing the Shah to the U.S., Carter declined to comment on what he called a "sideshow," a devilish reference to William Shawcross's book of that name highly critical of Kissinger. Carter once flung a rubber chicken at one particularly querulous reporter. A gregarious partygoer who loves to sing and dance, Carter last year married Patricia Derian, 50, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, after divorcing his wife of 21 years...