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...Showdown. Able, amiable Bill Norton was born and raised in Hampton, N.H., and prepped at Exeter. He left Harvard during his freshman year to support himself and three younger brothers after the death of their parents. Starting in Boston's Jordan Marsh Co., he worked his way up in various stores (e.g., W. T. Grant Co. and Filene's in Boston), until he joined Ward...
Long before he became president (at $100,000 a year), Norton got along with Avery only by speaking his mind. That worked until recently. Then the showdown came. It was stirred up by aging (now 74) Mr. Avery, who had a scunner on two of Ward's eight vice presidents. Avery decided to settle the matter in his usual fashion: he wanted President Norton to fire them. Norton roared: no. When Avery roared back, Norton handed in his resignation. Within 48 hours the eight vice presidents did the same. (Vice president in charge of personnel and public relations, Lawrence...
...electrical division. Three railroad brotherhoods had called a strike for May 11 against 132 major railroads. And John L. Lewis notified the mine owners that after June 30 (when their contracts expire and the union may legally strike), he wants something better. It looked as if the showdown on the third round was at hand...
...revolutionaries-Laurent Casanova, Andre Marty, et al.-took a licking when they tried a campaign of insurrection. Thorez stood his ground, waited for a signal from Moscow. Would Moscow order a detente (letup) or a bagarre (showdown...
...Berlin last week the U.S. forced an issue, and the long-awaited showdown over Germany tensely took shape...